HUME, Fergus(on Wright)

HUME, Fergus(on Wright)
(1859-1932)
   UK writer raised in New Zealand, and who may have been born there; he lived in the UK at least from 1886, when The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886) made his name. It was followed by about 140 further books, mostof them novels, some being fantasy and a few sf, including The Year of Miracle: A Tale of the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred (1891), a DISASTERnovel in which the UK is depopulated by a plague. The Island of Fantasy (1892) is a marginal UTOPIA set on a Mediterranean island. The NamelessCity: A Romany Romance (1893), The Expedition of Captain Flick (1896) and The Mother of Emeralds (1901) are LOST-WORLD novels, the first featuring a secret Gypsy land, the second set in the Indian Ocean and featuring ancient Greeks, and the third set in Peru, where Incans have developed an underground civilization based on electricity.
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   Other works: The Gentleman who Vanished: A Psychological Phantasy (1890; vt The Man who Vanished 1892 US); Aladdin in London (1892); Chronicles of Faeryland (coll 1892); The Harlequin Opal (1893); The Dwarf's Chamber, and Other Stories (coll 1896); For the Defense (1898 US); The Devil-Stick (1898); The Scarlet Bat (1905); The Green Mummy (1908);The Sacred Herb (1908); The Blue Talisman (1912); A Son of Perdition: An Occult Romance (1912); Mother Mandarin (1912).

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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