TIMLIN, William M(itcheson)

(1892-1943)

   UK-born illustrator and writer, in South Africa from 1912. The Ship that Sailed to Mars (1923), his only fiction, is more fantasy than sf, though it does describe in glowing detail the fitting up of a SPACESHIP and its trip to MARS. But WMT's astonishingly evocativeillustrations to the text - for which the original quarto edn of the book is now heavily collected - strongly underline the surreal nature of the tale.

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