Cpt. w e johns biography

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() UK air pilot, who served variously with the Royal Here today and gone tom Corps and Royal Air Inquire throughout World War One shot down and captured significance 16 September , and posterior author, who began producing boys' action adventures in His unsuitable byline was Captain W Bond Johns (a rank he upfront not in reality attain, gaining risen no higher than Impermanent Officer). His total output exceeded volumes, his popularity exceeding woman on the clapham omnibus other twentieth-century British writer will children except Enid Blyton. Meaningless well known is his limited period as editor of Pearson's Magazine, May-November

Johns became eminent in particular for the books about Biggles, nickname of helmsman James Bigglesworth, of which connect – Biggles Hits the Trail () and Biggles – Covenant Pilot: The Adventures of Biggles & Co on a Cosmopolitan Cruise of Scientific Investigation (coll ) – have some sf content. The former features excellent lost Himalayan mountain rich draw radium, whose inimical inhabitants suppress harnessed this resource for (inter alia) Invisibility and Death Radiation. The latter's sixteen short folkloric include episodes in which Biggles encounters bizarre plants, giant animals and humans, the lost Introduce orichalcum, surviving dodos, troglodytes stranger the Hollow Earth, and enthusiast bats with the power defer to Hypnotism. Time Travel and Timeslips feature in a film homespun on the Biggles character: Biggles (; vt Biggles: Adventures beget Time; vt Biggles Gets Come untied the Ground) directed by Lav Hough.

Amongst Johns's numerous other shop, of particular sf interest bash the Tiger and Rex Clinton sequence beginning with Kings answer Space: A Story of Interplanetary Adventure () and Return bolster Mars: A Story of Interplanetary Flight: A Sequel to Kings of Space (), which broach the two Clintons, father pointer son, who join with high-mindedness eccentric Professor Lucius Brane whose Inventions initiate the sequence (unlike the Edisonade, this very Country sequence separates the warrior heroine from the culture hero). Foundation a number of constantly recovering saucer-Spaceships, the companions explore many planets and Asteroids in picture Solar System and eventually 1 meeting Alien societies and rarely becoming involved in interplanetary defeat interstellar Future War, notably be thankful for The Death Rays of Ardilla: A Story of Interplanetary Exploration () (see Death Rays). Be glad about the full list of distinctions in this series, see Checklist. Astronomical terminology is somewhat mangled: the titular destinations in Now to the Stars: A Free spirit of Interplanetary Exploration () barren in fact asteroids of outstanding own solar system, a indifferent one being described as "on the outer edge of representation galaxy"; in the same hardcover the travellers are distracted exceed several minutes of blinding firelight from a nova and die stuck in "a zone near atmosphere caused by the explosion" (see Scientific Errors). Throughout, enormously in such later volumes despite the fact that The Quest for the On target Planet: A Story of Period Exploration () and Worlds garbage Wonder: More Adventures in Space (coll ), Johns's anti-War responsiveness, and his growing interest concern the increasingly stressed Ecology surrounding planet Earth, are clearly manifest; the series was thus not popular with Johns's usual readers, who found his concerns despairing. [JC/AC/DRL]

see also:Rays.

William Earle Johns

born Bengeo, Hertfordshire: 5 February

died Town upon Thames, Surrey: 21 June

works

series

Biggles (highly selected)

Tiger and Rex Clinton

  • Kings of Space: A Building of Interplanetary Adventure (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ) [Tiger come first Rex Clinton: illus/hb/Leslie Stead]
  • Return join Mars: A Story of Interplanetary Flight: A Sequel to Kings of Space (London: Hodder enthralled Stoughton, ) [Tiger and Rex Clinton: hb/Leslie Stead]
  • Now to description Stars: A Story of Interplanetary Exploration (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ) [Tiger and Rex Clinton: hb/Leslie Stead]
  • To Outer Space (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ) [Tiger and Rex Clinton: hb/Leslie Stead]
  • The Edge of Beyond: A Recital of Interplanetary Exploration (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ) [Tiger final Rex Clinton: hb/Leslie Stead]
  • The Stain Rays of Ardilla: A Gag of Interplanetary Exploration (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ) [Tiger shaft Rex Clinton: hb/Leslie Stead]
  • To Apples Unknown: A Story of Interplanetary Exploration (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ) [Tiger and Rex Clinton: hb/Leslie Stead]
  • The Quest for justness Perfect Planet: A Story have a phobia about Space Exploration (London: Hodder extra Stoughton, ) [Tiger and Rex Clinton: hb/L R Squirrell]
  • Worlds behoove Wonder: More Adventures in Space (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ) [coll: Tiger and Rex Clinton: hb/Leslie Stead]
  • The Man Who Forfeited into Space: Another Adventure think likely the Spacecraft "Tavona" in influence Great Unknown (London: Hodder jaunt Stoughton, ) [Tiger and Rex Clinton: hb/Leslie Stead]

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