Rutter, Owen
Entry updated 1 December 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1889-1944) US-born soldier, publisher and author, in UK from an early age, in active service during World War One; his Tiadatha sequence, a parody of The Song of Hiawatha (1855) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) beginning with The Song of Tiadatha (1919 The Balkan News as by Klip-Klip; 1919), is a book-length Parody set in and after the conflict; it contains fantasy elements. The Dragon of Kinabalu (coll 1923) assembles short fantasies. Lucky Star (1929; vt Once in a New Moon 1935), filmed as Once in a New Moon (1935), is a spoofish sf Satire in the shape of a Scientific Romance, depicting a small English community cast by a Comet into space on an Island-sized portion of the Earth, which Space-Station-like they orbit (see also Ship of Fools) while going about their village concerns, until the return to the North Sea. The echoes of Jules Verne's Scientific Romance Hector Servadac (1877) may be deliberate. The Monster of Mu (1932) [for vt see Checklist] is a Lost-World tale featuring cruel priests of Mu, a race of threatened pygmies, and a Monster which protects their sunken Island (see Under the Sea) from intruders. [JC]
Major Edward Owen Rutter
born New York: 7 November 1889
died 2 August 1944
works
series
Tiadatha
- The Song of Tiadatha (Thessaloniki, Greece: British Salonica Force, 1919) [poetry: coll: first appeared 1919 The Balkan News as by Klip-Klip: Tiadatha: pb/nonpictorial]
- The Travels of Tiadatha (London: T Fisher Unwin, 1922) [poetry: coll: Tiadatha: hb/]
- Tiadatha: The Song of Tiadatha; The Travels of Tiadatha (London: Phillip Allan and Company, 1935) [poetry: omni of the above two: both rev: Tiadatha: hb/]
individual titles
- The Dragon of Kinabalu (London: Clement Ingleby, 1923) [coll: hb/]
- Lucky Star (London: Hutchinson and Co, 1929) [hb/]
- Once in a New Moon (London: Hutchinson and Co, 1935) [vt of the above: hb/still from film]
- The Monster of Mu (London: Ernest Benn, 1932) [in the publisher's New Ninepenny Novels series: pb/nonpictorial]
- The Monster of Mu (London: Philip Allan, 1936) [rev of the above: hb/]
- The Monster of Mu: The Thrilling Story of a Race for Treasure in the Pacific and its Tragic Ending (London: Francis James Publishing Company, 1945) [vt of the above: hb/nonpictorial]
- The Monster of Mu (London: Philip Allan, 1936) [rev of the above: hb/]
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