Comstock, Sarah
Entry updated 16 March 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1875-1960) US editor and author, active from the mid 18890, most of her fiction being regional tales mostly in South Dakota, the best known of these being The Soddy (1912). Her last novel, The Moon Is Made of Green Cheese (1929), is of sf interest for its portrait of an astronomer (see Astronomy) who is responsible for some controversial findings and who engages in discussions with a mentor. His friends describe this mentor as an imaginary being; the astronomer's own description, if taken literally, would define his mentor as an Alien. [JC]
Sarah Comstock
born Athens, Pennsylvania: 20 March 1875
died Kansas City, Missouri: 20 January 1960
works
- The Moon Is Made of Green Cheese (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1929) [hb/]
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