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Foster, L B

(?   -?   ) Australian author of an sf novel, The Hocus Root (1944), in which the eponymous shrub confers Invisibility on the protagonist after he has come in contact with it. [JC]

Lionel Brist Foster

born

works

• The Hocus Root (Sydney, New South Wales: Hogbin, Poole, 1944) [1943 has also been given: pb/uncredited]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 17:12 pm on 13 July 2026.
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