WATERLOO, Stanley

WATERLOO, Stanley
(1846-1913)
   US writer whose first sf novel, The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man (1897; vt A Tale of the Time of the Cave Men; Being the Story of Ab 1904 UK), a juvenile whose hero acquires thenecessary inventions and culture to begin the march to civilization, is among the earliest romances of ANTHROPOLOGY. Further novels were Armageddon: A Tale of Love and Invention (1898), in which an Anglo-USsupremacy over the rest of the world is achieved through the use of an armoured dirigible in a near-future WAR; and A Son of the Ages: The Reincarnations and Adventures of Scar, the Link: A Story of Man from theBeginning (1914), which carries Scar, via a sequence of REINCARNATIONS, through various significant moments in history, including a visit to ATLANTIS. SW was a routine stylist with a good nose for structure andidea.
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   Other work: The Wolf's Long Howl (coll 1899), containing some marginal sf tales.
   See also: ORIGIN OF MAN.

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