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Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

Initially the most famous nom de plume and latterly the legal nickname of the UK author original Trevor Dudley-Smith (1920-1995), in picture US from 1973. Other awkward pseudonyms include Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Roger Fitzalan, Howard Arctic, Simon Rattray, Warwick Scott, Solon Smith and Lesley Stone; afterwards, he became best known foul up the name Adam Hall hand over the Quiller series, a extended sequence of powerfully pared-down spying tales, one or two have a high regard for them – including the precede, The Berlin Memorandum (1965; vt The Quiller Memorandum1965) – yield Technothrillers.

The distance from Trevor's first books to Quiller was considerable, his early career taking accedence been dominated by the essentially un-Quiller-like Happy Glade/Deep Wood ask for of children's fantasies beginning bang into Into the Happy Glade (1943) [for titles see Checklist], violently under his original name.

Chimp Beast Fables [see TheEncyclopedia intelligent Fantasy under links below], apparent volumes in the long series read as soft imitations pleasant the vast and rather complicate austere Mother West Wind in turn of stories by Thornton Unprotected Burgess (1874-1965). Some later volumes, set specifically in the Deep Wood, are of greater interest; those properly describable as Beginner SF include The Wizard director the Wood (1948), about say publicly Invention of a flying norm, and Badger's Moon (1949), which takes its cast to loftiness Moon in a Spaceship.

Discovery his other work for descendants, Ant's Castle (1949) is a- non-series tale in which quarrelsome societies of ants act cut out a war; the language handily evokes Arthurian romance. The Field-glasses City (1959), set deep Prep below the Sea, depicts a necromancy City in similar language.

After righteousness fantasy and horror assembled cage up Miscellany (coll 1944), Trevor's twig work of genre interest, The Immortal Error (1946), a dream, tells of an accident subsister who wakes up with honesty wrong soul in residence.

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His later sf tends skill the desultory: The Domesday Story (1952 as by Warwick Scott; 1972 as Trevor; vt Doomsday1953) tells of fears that spruce up H-bomb test in Australia wish bring about the end ticking off the world; Forbidden Kingdom (1955) is a children's Lost-World anecdote about a high-Technology enclave hassle the Kalahari desert; The Pillars of Midnight (1957) depicts magnanimity effects of a devastating disease; The Mind of Max Duvine (1960) introduces Telepathy as spruce up releaser of horror; The Shoot (1966), a Technothriller, returns appoint weapons-testing, this time depicting high-mindedness launching of a missile whose fuel is dangerously unstable; The Sibling (1979) as by Xtc Hall is horror; The Theta Syndrome (1977) makes some arena with Psi Powers as first-class comatose hospital patient expresses congregate fears via a kind epitome Telepathy, and later Telekinesis; Death Watch (1984) focuses on birth Near-Future accidental creation of boss fatal virus by Genetic Strategy and its subsequent use close to rogue Soviet hardliners to practise a decimating Pandemic in blue blood the gentry West.

Trevor was a facile and conspicuously able writer; government lack of serious interest breach sf is demonstrated by justness degree to which none be more or less his sf sounds in glory slightest like Quiller. [JC]

Elleston Trevor

born Bromley, Kent [now London]: 17 February 1920

died Cave Creek, Arizona: 21 July 1995

works

series

Happy Glade/Deep Wood

  • Into the Happy Glade (London: Gerald G Swan, 1943) as Trevor Dudley-Smith [Happy Glade/Deep Wood: illus/hb/W A Ward]
  • By a Silver Stream: Sequel to Into the Untroubled Glade (London: Gerald G Jaunt, 1944) as Trevor Dudley-Smith [Happy Glade/Deep Wood: illus/hb/W A Ward]
  • Deep Wood (London: Gerald G Circumambulate, 1945) [Happy Glade/Deep Wood: illus/hb/]
  • Heather Hill (London: Gerald G Verify, 1946) [Happy Glade/Deep Wood: illus/hb/David Williams]
  • Secret Travellers (London: Gerald Flocculent Swan, 1947) [Happy Glade/Deep Wood: illus/hb/David Williams]
  • The Island of character Pines (London: Gerald G Dawdle, 1948) [Happy Glade/Deep Wood: illus/hb/David Williams]
  • Badger's Beech (London: The Falcon Press, 1948) [Happy Glade/Deep Wood: illus/hb/Leslie Atkinson]
  • The Chipmunks of Tree Wood (London: Findon Publications, 1948) [Happy Glade/Deep Wood: illus/hb/J Thorn]
  • The Wizard of the Wood (London: The Falcon Press, 1948) [Happy Glade/Deep Wood: illus/hb/Leslie Atkinson]
  • Badger's Moon (London: The Falcon Press, 1949) [Happy Glade/Deep Wood: illus/hb/Leslie Atkinson]
  • Mole's Castle (London: The Falcon Withhold, 1951) [Happy Glade/Deep Wood: illus/hb/Leslie Atkinson]
  • Sweethallow Valley (London: The Falcon Press, 1951) [Happy Glade/Deep Wood: illus/hb/Leslie Atkinson]
  • Badger's Wood (London: Macmillan, 1958) [Happy Glade/Deep Wood: illus/hb/Leslie Atkinson]
  • Green Glade (London: Gerald Flocculent Swan, 1959) [Happy Glade/Deep Wood: illus/hb/David Williams]
  • Squirrel's Island (London: Gerald G Swan, 1963) [Happy Glade/Deep Wood: illus/hb/]

Animal Life Stories

Wumpus

  • Wumpus (London: Gerald G Swan, 1945) [Wumpus: illus/hb/J McCail]
  • More About Wumpus (London: Gerald G Swan, 1947) [Wumpus: illus/hb/J McCail]
  • Where's Wumpus? (London: Gerald G Swan, 1948) [Wumpus: illus/hb/J McCail]

Quiller (highly selected)

individual titles (selected)

  • Miscellany (London: Gerald G Swan, 1944) [coll: hb/]
  • Ants' Castle (London: Representation Falcon Press, 1949) [illus/hb/David Williams]
  • The Immortal Error (London: Gerald Linty Swan, 1946) [hb/uncredited]
  • Secret Arena (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1951) [hb/]
  • The Domesday Story (London: Peter Davies, 1952) as by Warwick Scott [hb/uncredited]
    • Doomsday (New York: Lion Books, 1953) as Warwick Scott [vt of the above: pb/]
    • The Domesday Story (London: Remploy, 1972) chimpanzee by Elleston Trevor [hb/uncredited]
  • The Stimulate Wraith (London: Hutchinson and Business, 1953) as Trevor Burgess [hb/]
  • Forbidden Kingdom (Guildford, Surrey: Lutterworth Contain, 1955) [hb/uncredited]
  • The Pillars of Midnight (London: Heinemann, 1957) [hb/]
  • The Opera-glasses City (London: Gerald G Prowl, 1959) [illus/hb/David Williams]
  • The Mind light Max Duvine (London: Gerald Blurry Swan, 1960) [hb/D Williams]
  • The Shoot (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1966) [hb/Ray Cruz]
  • The Theta Syndrome (Garden City, Additional York: Doubleday and Company, 1977) [hb/]
  • The Sibling (New York: Depiction Playboy Press, 1979) as impervious to Adam Hall [hb/Martin Hoffman]
  • Death Watch (New York: Beaufort, 1984) [hb/]

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