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(1882-1952) Australian author, mostly of short fiction, whose Amazon Island (1933) is a Utopia set on an Island in the Pacific inhabited by a Lost Race where sex-roles (see Gender; Sex Women in SF) have been reversed, more or less to the benefit of all. [JC]
born Kelvin Grove, Queensland: 1882
died Bondi, New South Wales: 13 June 1952
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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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