Ridley, Frank A
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
The usual working name of UK politician, freethinker and author Francis Ambrose Ridley (1897-1994), most of whose books were on historical subjects. The Green Machine (1926) as by F H Ridley, though clearly cavalier in its treatment of science – presenting as it does the eponymous bicycle as a Spaceship capable of interplanetary travel – interestingly sends its protagonist to tour a crowded solar system, landing first on Mars, where he finds an advanced civilization (see Life on Other Worlds), and embark on a tour – an educational Fantastic Voyage typical of the early twentieth century Scientific Romance – accompanied by a Martian who is bent on colonizing Earth. The F H Ridley [sic] byline is more probably a typographic error than an intended pseudonym. [JC]
see also: Hive Minds.
Francis Ambrose Ridley
born 22 February 1897
died London: 27 March 1994
works
- The Green Machine (London: Noel Douglas, 1926) [hb/]
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