STRAUS, Ralph

STRAUS, Ralph
(1892-1950)
   UK writer whose only full-scale sf novel, The Dust which is God: An Undimensional Adventure (1907), tamely depicts a world which has evolved religiously. In 5000 A.D.: A Review and an Excursion, Read Before ye Sette of Odd Volumes at Oddenino's Imperial Restaurant on Jan. 24th, 1911 (coll 1911 chap) the review is of the sf genre and the excursion is aTIME-TRAVEL tale.
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