Chatterton, E Keble
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1878-1944) UK author, active from around the turn of the century, best known for nonfiction works on maritime history, and for his dramatic depictions of naval warfare; he commanded a navy mine-sweeper during World War One. Of his fiction, the Z-Rays sequence – comprising Through Sea and Air (1929), Adventurers of the Air (1930) and The Sky Riders (1930) – is of most sf interest, as a European Invention, the feared Z-ray, is sold to Chinese bandits (see Yellow Peril) who nefariously assault the protagonists, themselves armed with a super-flying boat and, in the second volume, an advanced zeppelin; there are mild hints of propaganda for a Pax Aeronautica. [JC]
Lieutenant Commander Edward Keble Chatterton
born Sheffield, South Yorkshire: 10 September 1878
died London: 31 December 1944
works (selected)
series
Z-Rays
- Through Sea and Air (London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1929) [Z-Rays: hb/]
- Adventurers of the Air (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J B Lippincott, 1930) [Z-Rays: hb/Harris D McKinney]
- The Sky Riders (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J B Lippincott, 1930) [Z-Rays: hb/D Earl Nelson]
individual titles
- The King of the Air (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J B Lippincott, 1928) [hb/D Cammerota]
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