author
Stanley Shaw
b. 1870
An Australian novelist born in 1870, he wrote adventure and speculative fiction that now survives mostly through a handful of early 20th-century books. His best-known title today is the unusual 1924 novel The Locust Horde.
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William of Germany
by Stanley Shaw
About the author
Little is firmly documented about Stanley Shaw beyond the basics, but reliable reference sources identify him as an Australian author born in 1870. His work appeared in the early 1900s, and surviving records show he published both fiction and topical nonfiction.
Among the books linked to him are William of Germany and the novel A Siren of the Snows. Science fiction reference sources especially remember him for The Locust Horde (1924), a near-future novel whose premise made it notable enough to be indexed by modern genre encyclopedias.
Because biographical information on Shaw is scarce, his life is known more through his books than through personal details. That obscurity gives his work a certain curiosity today: he is one of those early authors whose name lingers at the edges of literary history, waiting to be rediscovered by interested readers.