(1861-?   ) US inventor, who held some patents for agricultural tools, and author of an sf novel for boys, Titan and Volcan [for subtitle see Checklist below] (1933), whose two protagonists discover a floating Island named Volcan which is inhabited by a miniature Lost Race (see Great and Small); they boast advanced Technology and a humane social order. [JC]

Alexis Francois Gillet

born 1861

died

works

• Titan and Volcan: A Story Woven into the Lives of Two Young Men; The Fate of Peter Shaw; Depicting Volcan Island and the Unsolved Mysteries of its People (Boston, Massachusetts: Meador Publishing Company, 1933) [hb/uncredited]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

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