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Noble, Vernon

(1908-1987) UK journalist, broadcaster and author whose Children's SF novel, Cloud Island: A Mystery of the Sky (1949), features a cloud so firm it can be walked upon. The eponymous Mad Scientist in The Case of the Missing Professor (1952) seems to have discovered the secret of Rejuvenation. [JC]

Wilfred Vernon Noble

born Halifax, West Yorkshire: 29 August 1908

died 12 December 1987

works (highly selected)

• Cloud Island: A Mystery of the Sky (London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1949) [illus/hb/S Drigin]
• The Case of the Missing Professor (London: George G Harrap, 1952) [illus/hb/Isabel Veevers]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 16:50 pm on 11 December 2024.
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