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Maurice Leblanc

Lifespan: 1864 – 1941
Nationality: French
Active: 1919
Works held: 1

Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941) created Arsène Lupin, the dashing gentleman-burglar whose adventures made him a French national icon. Several Lupin novels edge into science fiction and the fantastic, lost civilisations, wondrous devices and secret powers, reflecting the era’s appetite for the marvellous within popular crime fiction.

The works

1919

The Three Eyes

Wrote across

Recurring themes

First Contact Hard SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Alan Edward Nourse Albert Teichner Alfred Bester Alfred Coppel Algis Budrys Allen Kim Lang Arthur Porges August Derleth

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Edgar Rice Burroughs L. Frank Baum Lord Dunsany Victor Appleton H. G. Wells Algernon Blackwood Arthur Conan Doyle Charles B. Stilson E. Nesbit Jack London

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