Eidlitz, Walther
Entry updated 27 October 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1892-1976) Austrian poet and author of an sf novel, Zodiak (1930; trans Eric Sutton 1931), which takes a dim view of the glorification of technical progress through the airborne odyssey of its protagonist whose experience of New York is disastrous; the tale espouses instead a youthful ascent towards a higher world governed on Pax Aeronautica principles (see also Transportation). [JC]
Walther Eidlitz
born Vienna, Austria: 28 August 1892
died Uppsala, Sweden: 28 August 1976
works
- Zodiak (Vienna, Austria: P Zsolnay, 1930) [hb/]
- Zodiak (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1931) [trans by Eric Sutton of the above: hb/J L Carstairs]
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