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Frank Aubrey
1847–1927
A British writer and civil engineer who published adventurous pulp fiction under the name Frank Aubrey, he became an early favorite with readers of scientific romances and lost-world tales. His stories mix fast-moving action with the Victorian era’s excitement about exploration, invention, and strange new worlds.
2 Audiobooks
The Devil-Tree of El Dorado: A Novel
by Frank Aubrey
A Trip to Mars
by Frank Aubrey
About the author
Writing as Frank Aubrey, Francis Henry Atkins was a British author born around 1847 who also worked as a civil engineer. He published popular pulp fiction for younger readers and adventure fans, and he also used the pen name Fenton Ash.
Aubrey is now best remembered for lively speculative adventures that helped shape early science fiction and lost-world fiction. His work appeared widely in magazine culture before modern science fiction fully took shape, and later reference works have noted novels such as The Devil-Tree of El Dorado, A Queen of Atlantis, and A Trip to Mars among the books associated with his name.
He died in 1927. Although biographical details about him are relatively scarce, his fiction has remained of interest to readers of Victorian and Edwardian popular literature, especially those curious about the roots of pulp adventure and early science fiction.