active 1880-1932 Edwin Green

Edwin Green was a British author associated with early science fiction and adventure fiction. Reference works identify him as active from about 1880 to 1932, and his surviving reputation rests mainly on a small group of imaginative novels and serial fiction from that period.

His stories drew on themes that were popular in late Victorian and early twentieth-century popular literature: strange inventions, hidden worlds, and dramatic speculation about war and exploration. He is especially noted for works such as The Secret of the Moon Pool, which helped place him within the tradition sometimes called scientific romance.

Although he is not widely known today, Green's fiction reflects an important stage in the development of popular speculative storytelling in Britain, when adventure writing and proto-science-fiction often overlapped for magazine and juvenile readers.