GLOSSOP, Captain Reginald

(1880-?)

   UK writer, long resident in France, remembered almost exclusively for The Orphan of Space (1926), which lamely prefigures C.S. LEWIS's Ransom trilogy in the conceit that Earth is a diseased planetbarred from the higher spheres. The plot concerns the collaboration of a kind of spirit of Gaia with the ghost of a long-dead Chinese scientist to pass the secret of atomic energy on to the protagonists in 1935, so that they can cleanse the planet of its ailment. Some of RG's other novels were vanity-published.

   JC

   Other works: The Coming Invasion (1903 chap); The Crystal Globe (1922); The Magic Mirror (1923); Burning Sands (1928 France); The Ghastly Dew (1932), a future- WAR tale in which the Channel Tunnel is a threat; The Egyptian Venus (1946).