Footman, David J
Entry updated 24 February 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1895-1983) UK author of at least two Lost Race tales – The Mine in the Desert (1929), in which Roman slaves trapped down a mine are discovered centuries later to have suffered Devolution into apes (see Apes as Human); and The Yellow Rock (1929), a Yellow Peril novel whose marginal lost race of Mongolians is being raised through Eugenics to threaten the West – and of some Graustarkian (see George Barr McCutcheon; Ruritania) adventures assembled in Half-Way East (coll 1935), with Pemberton (1943) treating similar material at novel length, which is set in Vuchinia in 1941 as World War Two threatens to engulf the principality, treating similar material at novel length. [JC]
David John Footman
born Faringdon, Berkshire: 17 September 1895
died London: 8 October 1983
works
- The Mine in the Desert (London: John Long, 1929) [hb/L Robb]
- The Yellow Rock (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1929) [hb/nonpictorial]
- Half-Way East (London: Heinemann, 1935) [coll: hb/]
- Pemberton (London: The Cresset Press, 1943) [hb/Zéró]
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