Liston, Edward

Entry updated 18 November 2024. Tagged: Author.

(1900-1986) UK-born physician, flight surgeon and author, naturalized as a US citizen in 1932; in his Lost Race novel, The Bowl of Night (1948), a flight surgeon crash-lands in the Mexican jungle, where he discovers a Mayan civilization accessible only through passages Underground; the Mayans, though totally out of touch with the outside world, have developed science and Technology to rival the industrial West. [JC]

Edward J Liston

born Warrington, Lancashire: 1 February 1900

died Palo Alto, California: 20 March 1986

works

• The Bowl of Night (New York: Coward-McCann, 1948) [hb/Haberstock]
• Castle of Terror (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [ebook: first appeared November 1948 Amazing Stories: na/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Project Gutenberg
• Picture Gallery

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