Robert Cromie

Robert Cromie was an Irish journalist and novelist. His 1895 novel The Crack of Doom was his most successful and contains one of the first descriptions of an atomic explosion. He wrote scientific romances and adventure stories in the years when readers were curious about what new science might bring, and he worked as a journalist in Belfast. Readers of his day knew him for stories that imagined the dangers and wonders that discoveries in chemistry and physics might bring.