Morse, David
Entry updated 16 December 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1940- ) US journalist, poet and author whose sf novel, The Iron Bridge (1998), very effectively utilizes a Time Travel structure: the protagonist, from an America ravaged by Climate Change, Pollution and War, travels to 1773 England where she hopes to find a Jonbar Point in the sabotage the building of the world's first iron bridge, "The Iron Bridge" across the Severn Gorge in Ironbridge, Shropshire (opened 1781), hoping by this planned action to delay the onset of the Industrial Revolution. The main impact of the tale may lie in the richness of Morse's portrait of a livable world, centuries before the Disasters of the twenty-first century augur the end of civilization. [JC]
David Morse
born Vinita, Oklahoma: 15 December 1940
works
- The Iron Bridge (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998) [hb/]
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