de Valda, F W
Entry updated 3 October 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1884-1964) UK entrepreneur, pilot and author of two sf novels: Children of the Sun (1934), in which ultra-short waves from a distant star, when projected onto a screen, work as a Time Viewer, giving contemporary humans visual access to Hernando Cortez's savage conquest of Mexico; and The Treasure of Atíl (1934), a Young Adult tale whose young protagonists use various Inventions – including an advanced helicopter and a gold-finding machine – in their search for Aztec treasure. [JC]
Frederick Wisotzky de Valda
born Derby: 1884
died Poole, Dorset: 1964
works
- Children of the Sun (London: Arthur Barker, 1934) [hb/nonpictorial]
- The Treasure of Atíl (London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1934) [hb/Lawrence East]
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