Lynch, Bohun
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Artist, Author.
(1884-1928) UK author and caricaturist in whose one novel of sf interest is Menace from the Moon (1925), a Scientific Romance which rather casually blends Alien Invasion and Lost-World tropes, as descendants of a Moon colony, established by the seventeenth-century European Inventors of Space Flight, mount a remote-control attack on Earth with heat-Rays. They do so because their messages have been ignored, as twentieth-century technology is not yet up to receiving them. The tale contains references to the works of Bishop John Wilkins, whose The Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638) is here seen to have supplied a rationale for the original journey. Lynch's anthology, A Muster of Ghosts (anth 1924; vt The Best Ghost Stories 1924), is competent. [JE/JC]
John Gilbert Bohun Lynch
born London: 21 May 1884
died London: 2 October 1928
works
- Menace from the Moon (London: Jarrolds, 1925) [hb/]
works as editor
- A Muster of Ghosts (London: C Palmer, 1924) [anth: hb/]
- The Best Ghost Stories (Boston, Massachusetts: Smith, Maynard, 1924) [anth: vt of the above: hb/]
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