author
Linton Davies
A pulp-era science fiction writer active in the late 1930s, he is best remembered for fast-moving space adventures like War-Lords of the Moon. He also published under the name Morton Taney, adding another thread to his small but intriguing place in early genre fiction.
1 Audiobook
War-Lords of the Moon
by Linton Davies
About the author
Linton Davies was a science fiction writer whose work appeared during the late 1930s. Catalog and library sources identify him as the author of War-Lords of the Moon, and also note that he wrote under the pen name Morton Taney.
His surviving reputation today comes mainly from readers and archive projects that keep early pulp science fiction in circulation. War-Lords of the Moon has remained accessible through public-domain and audiobook collections, which has helped preserve his name even though biographical details about his life are hard to confirm.
Because reliable personal information about him appears to be scarce, the picture that survives is mostly literary rather than biographical: a writer associated with energetic, imaginative early science fiction and the magazine-era tradition that shaped the genre's popular beginnings.