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Lyons, Edgar Albion

(1897-1980) US author of The Chosen Race: A Novel Based on the Depression and the Machine Age (1936), a twenty-first-century Dystopia governed by Technocrats who impose a clockwork uniformity on the world. [JC]

Edgar Albion Lyons

born Methuen, Massachusetts: 5 September 1897

died Pinellas, Florida: 19 December 1980

works

• The Chosen Race: A Novel Based on the Depression and the Machine Age (St Petersburg, Florida: The Cavalier Pub Co, 1936) [hb/nonpictorial]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 03:52 am on 14 May 2026.
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