MARSHALL, Edison (Tesla)

MARSHALL, Edison (Tesla)
(1894-1967)
   US writer and big-game hunter, best known for his work outside the sf field, especially his many historical novels. He began publishing sf with "Who is Charles Avison?" (1916). The narrator of Ogden's Strange Story (1928 Popular Magazine; 1934), which is also sf,suffers a head-injury and timeslips into the deep past, becoming a proto-man named Og Dian of the Lost Land (1935; vt The Lost Land 1972) is a romantically told tale of a lost race (LOST WORLDS) of Cro-Magnons in Antarctica. Earth Giant (1960) is about Hercules.
   JC/PN
   Other works: The Death Bell (1924), Sam Campbell, Gentleman (1934), The Stolen God (1936), Darzee, Girl of India (1937), The White Brigand (1937) and The Jewel of Mahabar (1938), all primarily adventure but with some fantastic elements.

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