(1842-?   ) US playwright, translator and author, of sf interest for two examples of the Dime-Novel SF Edisonade, in the Tom Edison, Jr sequence usually written by Philip Reade: Tom Edison Jr's Air-Ship in Australia; Or, in Search of a Golden Treasure (1892 chap), which features Edison and his submersible Airship in adventures involving stolen gold; and Tom Edison's Electric Eagle; Or, in Search of a Mountain of Gold (1892 chap), in which, in a different ship, he discovers a Lost Race, overaweing the natives (see Race in SF). [JC]

Henry Livingston Williams

born 1842

died

works

series

Tom Edison, Jr

• Tom Edison Jr's Air-Ship in Australia; Or, in Search of a Golden Treasure (New York: New York Five Cent Library, 1892) [chap: Tom Edison, Jr: pb/uncredited]
• Tom Edison's Electric Eagle; Or, in Search of a Mountain of Gold (New York: New York Five Cent Library, 1892) [chap: Tom Edison, Jr: pb/uncredited]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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