BLACK, Ladbroke (Lionel Day)
- BLACK, Ladbroke (Lionel Day)
(1877-1940)
UK writer of much boys' fiction, often as Lionel Day or Paul Urquhart. He began publishing novels in 1902. The Buried World (1928), as by Lionel Day, is a LOST-WORLD juvenile; the head in The Gorgon's Head (1932) turns modern Britons to stone for a while; and The Poison War (1933) is a future- WAR novel in which the UK is attacked by chemical weapons. LB was not an innovative writer.
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Other works: The Wager (1927), a RURITANIAN tale.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
Academic.
2011.
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