Algernon blackwood biography of william hill

Entry updated 18 November 2024.

Algernon blackwood incredible adventures

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(1869-1951) UK author who spent a decade in Canada and the USA from the age of twenty, a period remembered in his partial autobiography Episodes Before Thirty (1923; vt Adventure Before Thirty1934); a prolific author of novels and short stories for half a century.

He served in World War One as an intelligence agent based in Switzerland, and in other roles. His novels of occult pantheism – best exemplified in The Centaur (1911), which builds on the theories of Gustav Fechner (1801-1887) in its projections of a sentient Mother Earth (see Gaia) – tend to argue a logic of history which seems sufficiently rational for some of his work to count as sf.

This is particularly true of the LeVallon sequence, Julius LeVallon (1916) and The Bright Messenger (1921). The first is primarily an occult novel regarding an individual who retains memories of past lives (see Reincarnation) and who seeks to remedy an error