OMEGON (1915-1916) – Written by George Frederick Stratton, this serialized story dealt with a fictional war of super-scientific weaponry between the United States on one side and China, Japan and Mexico on the other.
Omegon (Electrical Experimenter Sep 1915) is the title of the opening installment of five total, all of which I will review in this blog post. The main character of the entire work is Fred Cawthorne, a millionaire inventor and manufacturer in the electronics field.
With World War One raging, Cawthorne is exasperated at America’s failure to modernize its armed forces in case our nation gets caught up in the war, as of course, we did in 1917. Fred has proposed futuristic weapons himself and been rejected by the War Department.
Cawthorne seeks out other geniuses whose projects have been turned down by the short-sighted government and finances them himself. When America’s West Coast panics at the sight of a combined Japo-Chinese fleet approaching San Francisco, President Wilson is unprepared. Continue reading
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