KUPPORD, Skelton

   Pseudonym of UK writer J. Adams (? -?), whose sf novel, A Fortune from the Sky (1903), features several inventions that are all linked to "panergon", which is capable of generating a profitable sky-writing raybut which its inventor soon uses, more conventionally, as a DEATH RAY. Soon the UK is ringed with victims, mostly innocent ones. In the end,world peace is enforced.

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