Ashton, Francis Leslie
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1904-1994) UK analytical chemist, painter and author whose first sf novel, The Breaking of the Seals (1946), sets a psychic time-traveller into a prehistoric world (see Prehistoric SF) where primitive society ends in chaos with the breaking up of Bahste, Earth's then Moon; a deluge follows. Its thematic sequel, Alas, That Great City (1948), set in Atlantis, propounds a similar Disaster, with a new planet arriving to become the Earth's moon and sinking the continent. Wrong Side of the Moon (1952), written with his brother Stephen Ashton (1907-1991), deals more mundanely with an attempt at Space Flight. [JC]
Francis Leslie Ashton
born Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire: 24 June 1904
died Ely, Cambridgeshire: July 1994
works
- The Breaking of the Seals (London: Andrew Dakers, 1946) [hb/Tindall]
- Alas, That Great City (London: Andrew Dakers, 1948) [hb/Sington]
- Wrong Side of the Moon (London: T V Boardman, 1952) with Stephen Ashton [hb/]
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