Salisbury, William
Entry updated 27 January 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1877-1942) US author of two novels of sf interest. The American Emperor (1913) is a Dystopia in which an American speculator destroys all opposition to his ambitions, and becomes Emperor of America. In his Satire, The Squareheads: The Story of a Socialized State: A Futuristic Novel (1929), a pilot, losing conscious during a stunt, enters Suspended Animation, awakening 400 years later to find that America, now known as Usofmera, has been literally transformed into a Utopia (comically conceived) where universal uniformity has so deeply permeated the world that even its inhabitants are cubic. The state ensures that all is "four-square". Married couples must have four children every four years. All cubes are equal. [JC]
William A Salisbury
born Wisconsin: 6 August 1877
died 5 July 1942
works
- The American Emperor (New York: The Tabard Inn Press, 1913) [hb/]
- The Squareheads: The Story of a Socialized State: A Futuristic Novel (New Rochelle, New York: The Independent Publishing Company, 1929) [hb/]
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