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Wheeler, Francis

(1904-1969) UK author, mostly of thrillers, though as Francis Leslie Wheeler he published several volumes of popular Christian theology. His Sylvanian Adventure (1939) has some sf interest as a Ruritanian tale set in a hidden, heavily forested kingdom dangerously close to the outbreak of World War Two. [JC]

Frank Leslie Wheeler [adopted the name Francis in or before 1931]

born Southampton, Hampshire: 1904

died Aldershot, Hampshire: 1969

works (selected)

• Sylvanian Adventure (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1939) [hb/]

links

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 09:56 am on 24 April 2024.
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