Fred MacIsaac

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 22, 1886, Frederick John MacIsaac was an American science-fiction author whose stories and novels appeared in pulp magazines such as Argosy during the years between World War I and World War II. He died in Los Angeles on May 5, 1940.

MacIsaac’s fiction ranged across several classic science-fiction themes. The Vanishing Professor features an invisibility machine entangled with criminals and detectives, while The Mental Marvel follows a boxer gifted with extraordinary mental powers. His best-known work, The Hothouse World, imagines a survivor awakening in 2051 to find humanity living under protective domes on a devastated Earth. Other novels include The Great Commander, The Last Atlantide, World Brigands, and The Lost Land of Atzlan.