MOFFETT, Cleveland Langston

MOFFETT, Cleveland Langston
(1863-1926)
   US playwright and popular novelist, author of one of the most explicit EDISONADES to appear in early-20th-century US sf. In The Conquest of America: A Romance of Disaster and Victory (1916), Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) himself saves the USA from decadent socialists while fendingoff a threat of WAR from Germany. The Mysterious Card (fixup 1912) and Possessed (fixup 1920) are occult fantasies.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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