MINTO, William

MINTO, William
(1845-1893)
   UK writer whose sf novel, The Crack of Doom (1886), portentously invokes the threatened arrival of a dangerous comet to influence, intermittently, an entirely prosaic plot.
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   See also: END OF THE WORLD.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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