PSEUDOMAN, Akkad

PSEUDOMAN, Akkad
   Pseudonym of US writer Edwin Fitch Northrup (1886-1940), whose sf novel Zero to Eighty (1937) tells woodenly of life during the entire 20th century, culminating in technical and pictorial accounts of the building of a gun-launched SPACESHIP and of its trip to the Moon.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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