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Frank Aubrey
1847–1927
A lively British adventure writer, he filled late-Victorian and Edwardian fiction with lost worlds, strange islands, airships, and trips to Mars. Writing under the name Frank Aubrey, he became one of the early popularizers of science-flavored adventure for younger readers.
2 Audiobooks
The Devil-Tree of El Dorado: A Novel
by Frank Aubrey
A Trip to Mars
by Frank Aubrey
About the author
Born Francis Henry Atkins around 1847 and dying in 1927, this British writer published pulp-style adventure fiction under the pseudonyms Frank Aubrey and Fenton Ash. Modern reference sources describe him as a writer of popular fiction, especially science fiction aimed at younger readers.
His stories leaned hard into wonder and motion: hidden civilizations, Atlantic mysteries, polar danger, exotic landscapes, and speculative inventions. Among the works linked with the Frank Aubrey name are The Devil-Tree of El Dorado, A Queen of Atlantis, A Trip to Mars, A Son of the Stars, and A King of Mars.
Though not as famous now as some of his contemporaries, he stands as part of the energetic early tradition that helped shape boys' adventure fiction and proto-science-fiction in Britain. He was also the father of the writer Frank Howard Atkins.