Grierson, Francis D
Entry updated 11 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1888-1972) Irish-born UK soldier, lawyer, journalist and author, in UK from about 1900, in active service during World War One; he is known mostly for detective fiction, much of it assembled in series including the Inspector Slim and Professor Wells sequence and the successor Chief Inspector George Muir and Superintendent Andrew Ash sequences. Grierson began to publish work of genre interest with "The Hall of the Dead" for Weird Tales, April 1923; of specific sf interest is his Scientific Romance Heart of the Moon (1928), shaped as a narrative document describing in retrospect how a pugilistic English Scientist was secretly transported to a socialist Dystopia within the Moon by one of its giant rulers. We are told that after a long romance under surveillance, in which Sex is abjured while being debated a great deal, Lawrence escapes back to Earth with his lunar beloved, but they crash into the sea and (it may be) drown. [JC]
Francis Durham Grierson
born Dublin, Ireland: 27 November 1888
died London: 24 September 1972
works
- Heart of the Moon (London: Alston Rivers, 1928) [hb/]
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