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词条 Francis Leslie Ashton
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  1. Personal life

  2. References

  3. External links

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Francis Leslie Ashton (24 June 1904 – July 1994) was a British writer known for his first novel Breaking of the Seals in 1946 and a kind of sequel Alas, That Great City from 1948. The two novels concern disasters involving objects orbiting the Earth in prehistoric times. In 1952 he co-wrote Wrong Side of the Moon, which concerns space travel.

Personal life

  • Francis Leslie Ashton was born on 24 June 1904 in Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire to Mary Alice and William Ashton. Ashton had two siblings, Elizabeth Bruce (1902-1994) and Stephen Thurstan Ashton (1907-1991).
  • Ashton died in Ely, Cambridgeshire in July 1994 aged 90 years.

References

  • {{cite encyclopedia | last = Clute | first = John | authorlink = John Clute | title = Ashton, Francis Leslie | pages = 55 | editor = John Clute and Peter Nicholls| encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of Science Fiction | edition = 2nd| year = 1993| publisher = St. Martin's Press| isbn = 0-312-09618-6}}

External links

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  • Rootsweb profile
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