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Oldmeadow, Ernest

(1867-1949) UK author whose 1930s Radio work sometimes verged on the fantastic, though the examples supplied in The Town To-Morrow: Five and Twenty Imaginary Broadcasts (coll 1937) as by Francis Downman do not seem to have been broadcast. His sf novel, The North Sea Bubble: A Fantasia (1906), set in 1910 after a German Invasion of England on Battle of Dorking lines, spoofs the conventions of the Future-War tale in a manner later amplified by P G Wodehouse in The Swoop! (1909). [JC]

Ernest James Francis Oldmeadow

born Chester, Cheshire: 31 October 1867

died London: 11 September 1949

works

• The North Sea Bubble: A Fantasia (London: E Grant Richards, 1906) [hb/]
• In Town to-Morrow: Five and Twenty Imaginary Broadcasts (London: Richards, 1937) as by Francis Downman [plays for radio: coll: hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Project Gutenberg

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 02:16 am on 18 April 2026.
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