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Lowell Howard Morrow

Best known for early speculative fiction, this American writer imagined lost worlds, cosmic futures, and big end-of-the-world ideas long before modern science fiction took shape. His surviving work still has the feel of a literary curiosity from the genre's adventurous beginnings.

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Omega, the Man

Omega, the Man

by Lowell Howard Morrow

About the author

Born in Harrison Township, Ohio, in April 1870, Lowell Howard Morrow was an American writer whose work is now remembered mainly through early science fiction and fantastic fiction references. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction records that he died in Painesville, Ohio, on March 4, 1951.

His best-known book appears to be Atalantis: A Novel (1902), and later readers can also find Omega, the Man through Project Gutenberg. The themes linked with his work suggest a taste for grand, imaginative speculation, including lost civilizations and world-altering futures.

Morrow is not a widely documented figure today, which gives his work an archival charm: he feels less like a canonized celebrity author and more like one of the explorers from science fiction's early edge. For listeners who enjoy obscure pioneers and forgotten imaginative fiction, he offers an intriguing glimpse of the genre before it fully became modern science fiction.