Connell, Alan
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1916-1994) Australian author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Reign of the Reptiles" in Wonder Stories for August 1935, but who remains known almost solely for his Serpent Land sequence, comprising Lords of Serpent Land (1945 chap), Prisoners in Serpent Land (1945 chap) and Warriors of Serpent Land (1945 chap), all three being assembled as Lords of Serpent Land (omni 1991). The tales, which are effectively one sustained novel, reflect the influence of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan, featuring elements of Prehistoric SF and the presence of several Amazonian Lost Races. [JC]
Alan Herbert Connell
born Mosman, New South Wales: 1 May 1916 [birth year has also been given as 1915 and 1917]
died 1994
works
series
Serpent Land
- Lords of Serpent Land (Sydney, New South Wales: Currawong Publishing Co, 1945) [chap: Serpent Land: pb/]
- Prisoners in Serpent Land (Sydney, New South Wales: Currawong Publishing Co, 1945) [chap: Serpent Land: pb/]
- Warriors of Serpent Land (Sydney, New South Wales: Currawong Publishing Co, 1945) [chap: Serpent Land: pb/]
- Lords of Serpent Land (Sydney, New South Wales: Graham Stone, 1991) [omni of the above three titles: Serpent Land: hb/nonpictorial]
individual titles
- The Swordsmen of Rome (Sydney, New South Wales: Currawong Publishing Co, 1945) [chap: pb/]
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