Pinkerton, Thomas A
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1850-1914) UK author some of whose books edge into the fantastic; of sf interest is No Rates and Taxes: A Romance of Five Worlds (1902), in which a human trapped on Mars, which he describes, in a series of letters to a colleague on Venus, as a Dystopia where women rule (see Feminism; Women in SF); Valdora (1907) is a Ruritanian romance. [JC]
Thomas Andrew Pinkerton
born Petersham Surrey: 1850
died Bangor, Caernarfonshire [now Gwynedd], Wales: April 1914
works
- Blizzard; And Another Fantasy (London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1893) [coll: book is dated 1894: hb/]
- No Rates and Taxes: A Romance of Five Worlds (Bristol, England: J W Arrowsmith, 1902) [pb/]
- Valdora (London: John Long, 1907) [hb/]
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