Leslie, Lilian
Entry updated 30 December 2024. Tagged: Author.
Joint pseudonym of UK author Violet Lillian Perkins (1886-1967) and US author Archer Leslie Hood (1867-1944) whose sf novel, The Melody from Mars (1924), perplexedly unpacks a tale involving Mars, something like Matter Transmission occasioned by the performance of an opera (see Music), interplanetary travel from the fourth planet to Earth (and back), an Underground Lost World on Earth founded by ancient Egyptians whose main Power Source is electricity, which runs their advanced Technology. The three main protagonists, after their elated transfer to Earth, awaken in Salt Lake City in the twenty-first century, where a Utopia, not fully described, is founded. [JC]
Archer Leslie Hood
born Plymouth, Massachusetts: 9 July 1867
died New York: 21 March 1944
Violet Lillian Perkins
born Feckenham, Worcestershire: 14 February 1886
died Brecon, Powys, Wales: 1967
works
- The Melody from Mars (New York: Authors' International Publishing Company, 1924) [hb/]
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