(1856-1941) UK playwright and author whose anonymously published sf novel, Our Own Pompeii: A Romance of Tomorrow (1887 2vols) is a fairly mild-mannered Satire of high society featuring a pleasure city on the Riviera which proves too expensive to run. [JC]

Samuel Middleton Fox

born London: 16 March 1856

died Whetham Calne, Wiltshire: 12 March 1941

works

• Our Own Pompeii: A Romance of Tomorrow (Edinburgh, Scotland: William Blackwood and Sons, 1887), anonymous [published in two volumes: hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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