Timms, E V
Entry updated 31 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1895-1960) Australian screenwriter and author who was in active service during World War One; his books for adults are nonfantastic, but his children's fiction include two Lost Race tales: The Valley of Adventure: A Story for Boys (1926), which finds a secret enclave deep in the Australian outback to be inhabited by aborigines, who pose a threat to White Australians; and The Cities Under the Sea (1948), set less datedly in the Sargasso Sea, where the protagonists end up in their search for a missing female relative, finding a secret Island at the heart of the maritime maze. Caverns lead them far Under the Sea, where competing Cities of survivors from Atlantis – various endowed with the secret of atomic power, Invisibility and levitation (see Telekinesis) – go to war with each other. The underwater world is soon blown up by a nuclear bomb. The young protagonists survive. [JC]
Edward Vivian Timms
born Charters Towers, Queensland: 7 April 1895
died Budgewoi, New South Wales: 14 June 1960
works
- The Valley of Adventure: A Story for Boys (Sydney, New South Wales: Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1926) [illus/hb/Edgar A Holloway]
- The Cities Under the Sea (Sydney, New South Wales: Angus and Robertson, 1948) [hb/]
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