McIvor, Allan
Entry updated 17 March 2025. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of the unidentified author (? -? ) of The Overlord: The Story of the Peons of Canada (1904), a Near Future depiction of the American Invasion of Canada at the behest of the eponymous railroad magnate, who establishes a dictatorship. The upcoming business magnate protagonist of The Mechanic (1906) powers his rise initially through an Invention of his father, an improved method for refining iron ore into steel; his own later inventions include a vastly improved typesetting machine. En passant he discovers, in an old Native American mine (see Lost Worlds), a fluid which almost magically increases the efficiency of oil when burned. [JC]
"Allan McIvor"
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works
- The Overlord: The Story of the Peons of Canada (New York: William Ritchie, 1904) [hb/]
- The Mechanic (New York: William Ritchie, 1906) [hb/nonpictorial]
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