Books by Clement Masloff

A series of stories cover several inventions and breakthroughs that could have occurred in an imagined Post-World War II America. They cover microwave faxing and storage, brain wave mental therapy, alongevity serum from the Soviet Union, synthetic gasoline from corn, electronic medical treatments, new zodiacs in astrology, cloud-seeding for whether control, a universal antiviral compound,, advanced steam- powered autos, a cure for alcoholism, advanced mirror therapy, and a major conflict between two schools of 1946 futurists.

Police Detective Skopo Kitanin wages a difficult conflict against the Readers, a vengeance-seeking group of vandals attacking the viroid communications of the planet Farmer. In the city of Kalender, Skopo joins with the librarian Dari Totmax and her brother, Mlem. The trio trace the vandals through a carnivore anti=vegetarian restaurant, a hydrotherapy hospital, and a viroid language school to two brothers, Prado and Zado Atat, trying to avenge their grandfather, who claimed to have invented viroid memory ribbons. They are traced to a poet''s colony on the yellow-snow mountain where the Readers operate from a cave. Skopo follows them to the dramafi lming industry on the sea coast and a theater on Eerie Island where viroid masks are being used. He captures the last of these brothers on local boats making raids on viroid studies where movies are produced.