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T. C. Bridges (1868–1944)
Thomas Charles Bridges born Bagnères de Bigorre, France: 22 August 1868 died 26 May 1944 (1868-1944) French-born UK writer, in Florida for some years before 1894; he also wrote as Christopher Beck. A prolific author of boys' fiction from 1899 or earlier, including some Sexton Blake Library stories, he wrote several sf tales for the oldest segment of his audience. Of greatest interest are The Secret of the Waters (1917), a tale set Under the Sea, where young lads in a submarine encounter Monsters; Martin Crusoe: A Boy's Adventure on Wizard Island (1920), which takes young Martin Vaile to the eponymous island, a relic of Atlantis; Men of the Mist (1922 The Children's Magazine; 1923), a Lost Race tale set in Alaska featuring creatures typical of Prehistoric SF; People of the Chasm (1923) as by Christopher Beck, another Lost Race tale featuring giant insects and Norsemen in a clement hollow at the North Pole; The City of No Escape (1925), a Lost World inhabited – in a very early, possibly the first, use of the term in English-language fiction after the 1923 translation of Karel Čapek's R.U.R. – by Robot-like creatures; and The Death Star (1940), a rather grim tale set on a depopulated Earth. [JC] The Secret of Sevenstones Key Wings of Adventure The Hidden City Heroes of modern adventure The book of the sea Master minds of modern science The book of discovery Marlow of the mounted The River Riders The Book of Invention Men of the Mist 2 copies Den underjordiska staden : äventyrsroman för ungdom Boek der ontdekkingen, het THE BOOK OF DISCOVERY THE BIG BUDGET FOR BOYS The Girl from Golden 1 copy The life story of a squirrel (Animal autobiographies) 1 copy More Heroes of Modern Adventure, 1 copy On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles 1 copy Uus Crusoe : [romaan] The young folk's book of invention, Jackie Hightree Martin Crusoe Great Canals The Motor-Car Mystery The Secret Of Smoking Swamp The T.C.Bridges Adventure Book The city of no escape Adventures Under Ground The Death Star, etc A Fight for Fortune |
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