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Le Queux is a founder of those types of genre fiction; other comparable authors are E. Phillips Oppenheim, Guy Boothby, Louis Tracy, Edgar Wallace, John Buchan and "Sapper".

I would not characterise that as POV, as per the edit summary. And it strikes me as more encyclopedic than tenuous speculation about James Bond's possible connection.

Charles Matthews 13:05, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wired Magazine (Aug 2012) has an article on Le Queux that says he created the genre and inspired Ian Fleming's James Bond series. DOR (HK) (talk) 08:17, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Inaccurate

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"His best-known works are the anti-German invasion fantasies The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and The Invasion of 1910 (1906), the latter of which was a phenomenal bestseller."

One can hardly call The Great War in England in 1897 anti-German; it portrays the Germans as Britain's allies against France and Russia. That's the very thing that makes it interesting! 82.176.202.53 (talk) 12:35, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation of name

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If anyone knows the correct pronunciation of his name, it would be useful to add that as an edit.71.167.249.82 (talk) 14:19, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Le Queux is a French family name pronounced: ləkə The equivalent family name in English is: Cook — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.35.178.234 (talk) 16:53, 4 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]