George, Vernon
Entry updated 24 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
Working name of Scottish author George Shirra Gibb Vernon (1885-1959), whose first work of sf interest, Hamish Munro's Experiment: A Thrilling Romance of the East and the Antipodes (1935), is a fantasy published by a vanity house, and whose The Crown of Asia (1939) is a Near Future Yellow Peril Invasion tale, set in the 1940s, the target of the invasion being India. [JC]
George Shirra Gibb Vernon
born Arbirlot, Forfarshire, Scotland: 1885
died Edinburgh, Scotland: 22 July 1959
works
- Hamish Munro's Experiment: A Thrilling Romance of the East and the Antipodes (London: Arthur H Stockwell, 1935) [hb/]
- The Crown of Asia (London: Stanley Paul, 1939) [hb/]
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