BERESFORD, Leslie

(?1891-?1937)

   UK author who entered the genre with The Second Rising (1910), a future- WAR novel about the Second Indian Mutiny, and continued with two UTOPIAN novels published under the pseudonym Pan: The Kingdom Of Content (1918) and The Great Image (1921). Reverting to his own name, he wrote a novel about international air piracy, Mr Appleton Awakes (1924; cut 1932), and a humorous novel about a sensuous ALIEN with supranormal powers, The Venus Girl (1925; cut 1933). LB was quite prolific in the magazine market, contributing "War of Revenge" (1921), "The Purple Planet" (1922) and "The People Of The Ice" (1922) - respectively future-war, interplanetary and LOST-WORLD adventures - to the BOYS' PAPERS, and "The Octopus Orchid" (1921) and "The Stranger from Somewhere" (1922), among others, to the pre-sf PULP MAGAZINES.

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   Other works: The Last Woman (1922); The Invasion of the Iron-Clad Army (1928); The Flying Fish (1931).