Osbourne, Lloyd
Entry updated 18 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1868-1947) US author, step-son of Robert Louis Stevenson, with whom he collaborated on three novels including the popular nonfantastic black comedy The Wrong Box (1889) and The Ebb-Tide: A Trio & Quartette (November 1893-February 1894 To-Day; 1894), primarily by his father-in-law [whom see for details]. Some of the tales assembled in The Queen Versus Billy and Other Stories (coll 1900) and Wild Justice (coll 1906; vt Wild Justice: Short Stories of the South Seas 1921) are of mild sf interest. In his novel, The Adventurer (1907), explorers after pre-Columbian treasure convey themselves across South American plains in an aluminium land ship powered by sails (see Transportation); the Lost World they eventually discover is deserted. [JC]
Samuel Lloyd Osbourne
born San Francisco, California: 7 April 1868
died Glendale, California: 22 May 1947
works
- The Wrong Box (London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1889) with Robert Louis Stevenson [hb/]
- The Ebb-Tide: A Trio & Quartette (Chicago, Illinois: Stone and Kimball, 1894) with Robert Louis Stevenson [first appeared November 1893-February 1894 To-Day: hb/T B Meteyard]
- The Queen Versus Billy and Other Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900) [coll: hb/uncredited]
- Wild Justice (New York: D Appleton and Company, 1906) [coll: illus/Widney]
- Wild Justice: Short Stories of the South Seas (New York: D Appleton and Company, 1921) [coll: vt of the above: hb/]
- The Adventurer (New York: D Appleton and Company, 1907) [illus/hb/L A Shafer]
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