Rosa, Samuel Albert
Entry updated 12 August 2018. Tagged: Author.
(1866-1940) Australian journalist, politician and author, mostly in the US and UK before 1888, whose Near Future sf novel, The Coming Terror; Or, the Australian Revolution (1894 chap; vt Oliver Spence, the Australian Caesar: Or, the Coming Terror 1895 chap), expresses a fin de siècle sense of the fragility of White civilization; The Invasion of Australia (1920), a nonfiction description of Australia's vulnerability to Invasion, was equally downbeat. [JC]
Samuel Albert Rosa
born Sydney, New South Wales: 31 January 1866
died Sydney, New South Wales: 25 May 1940
works
- The Coming Terror; Or, the Australian Revolution (Sydney, New South Wales: for the author, 1894) [chap: binding unknown/]
- Oliver Spence, the Australian Caesar: Or, the Coming Terror (Sydney, New South Wales: for the author, 1895) [chap: vt of the above: binding unknown/]
- The Invasion of Australia (Sydney, New South Wales: Judd, 1920) [nonfiction: binding unknown/]
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