Glossop, Reginald
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1880-1955) UK author, long resident in France, whose The Coming Invasion!: How It May Be Prevented (1910 chap), is an unalarming Future War tract; he also wrote a few stories for Boys' Papers in the 1920s. Glossop is remembered almost exclusively for The Orphan of Space: A Tale of Downfall (1926), which lamely prefigures C S Lewis's Ransom trilogy in the conceit that Earth is a diseased planet barred from the higher spheres. The plot concerns the collaboration of a kind of spirit of Gaia with the ghost of a long-dead Chinese scientist to pass the secret of atomic energy on to the protagonists in 1935, so that they can eliminate a Yellow Peril threat emanating from China and Moscow, and cleanse the planet of its ailment. The Ghastly Dew (1932), another Future War tale in which the Channel Tunnel threatens the UK, is of moderate interest. Some of Glossop's other novels were vanity-published. [JC]
Captain Reginald Glossop
born Newland, Yorkshire: 1880
died Algeciras, Spain: 10 April 1955
works
- The Coming Invasion!: How It May Be Prevented (Hull, East Yorkshire: "Printed for the Author", 1910) [chap: a claimed earlier printing from 1902 or 1903 has not been traced: pb/]
- The Crystal Globe (London: Odhams Press, 1922) [hb/]
- The Magic Mirror: A Romance (London: Odhams Press, 1923) [hb/]
- The Orphan of Space: A Tale of Downfall (London: G Macdonald and Company, 1926) [hb/Stanley L Wood]
- Burning Sands (Marseilles, France: "Studies" Publications, 1928) [hb/E M Channing-Renton]
- The Ghastly Dew (London: R Glossop, 1932) [book published as in London, but actually Nice, France: pb/]
- The Egyptian Venus: A Romance (London: Regency Press, 1946) [hb/"Doug"]
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