T. C. Bridges (1868–1944)

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Thomas Charles Bridges

born Bagnères de Bigorre, France: 22 August 1868

died 26 May 1944


(1868-1944) French-born UK writer, in Florida for some years before 1894; he also wrote as Christopher Beck. A prolific author of boys' fiction from 1899 or earlier, including some Sexton Blake Library stories, he wrote several sf tales for the oldest segment of his audience. Of greatest interest are The Secret of the Waters (1917), a tale set Under the Sea, where young lads in a submarine encounter Monsters; Martin Crusoe: A Boy's Adventure on Wizard Island (1920), which takes young Martin Vaile to the eponymous island, a relic of Atlantis; Men of the Mist (1922 The Children's Magazine; 1923), a Lost Race tale set in Alaska featuring creatures typical of Prehistoric SF; People of the Chasm (1923) as by Christopher Beck, another Lost Race tale featuring giant insects and Norsemen in a clement hollow at the North Pole; The City of No Escape (1925), a Lost World inhabited – in a very early, possibly the first, use of the term in English-language fiction after the 1923 translation of Karel Čapek's R.U.R. – by Robot-like creatures; and The Death Star (1940), a rather grim tale set on a depopulated Earth. [JC]



The Secret of Sevenstones Key
Wings of Adventure
The Hidden City
Heroes of modern adventure
The book of the sea
Master minds of modern science
The book of discovery
Marlow of the mounted
The River Riders
The Book of Invention
Men of the Mist 2 copies
Den underjordiska staden : äventyrsroman för ungdom
Boek der ontdekkingen, het
THE BOOK OF DISCOVERY

THE BIG BUDGET FOR BOYS
The Girl from Golden 1 copy
The life story of a squirrel (Animal autobiographies) 1 copy
More Heroes of Modern Adventure, 1 copy
On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles 1 copy
Uus Crusoe : [romaan]
The young folk's book of invention,
Jackie Hightree
Martin Crusoe
Great Canals
The Motor-Car Mystery
The Secret Of Smoking Swamp
The T.C.Bridges Adventure Book
The city of no escape
Adventures Under Ground
The Death Star, etc
A Fight for Fortune