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The Messiah of the Cylinder, Classics To Go

In his book The Messiah of the Cylinder Victor Rousseau equates scientific advancement and the secularization of society with corruption, hedonistic excess, eugenics, and tyranny. He goes as far as disparaging democracy itself as a governmental form, preferring a monarchal form with the strong moral influence of the Christian church and a healthy respect for aged traditions. Rousseau describes some entertaining ray-gun technology based upon new colors in the visible spectrum, and ambitious architecture in the soulless-megalith sense. (Goodreads)

Victor Rousseau

Victor Rousseau Emanuel, originally Avigdor Rousseau Emanuel (January 1879, England - 6 April 1960, Tarrytown) was a British writer who wrote novels, newspaper series, science fiction and pulp fiction works. He was active in Great Britain and the United States during the first half of the 20th century. During the first 20 years of his career, Emanuel wrote predominantly under the pen names Victor Rousseau, H. M. Egbert, and V. R. Emanuel. In the 1930s, he only created pulp fiction under his own name. He wrote racy stories under the pen name Lew Merrill.

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