Caldecott, Moyra
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of South-African born author Olivia Brown (1927-2015), in the UK from 1951, almost all her work being fantasy for Young Adult readers [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below], beginning with Weapons of the Wolfhound (1976); she was best-known for the Tall Stones sequence beginning with The Tall Stones (1977; vt Guardians of the Tall Stones 1986). Of sf interest is one novel, Child of the Dark Star (1984), a Science Fantasy set in what may be the Far Future on a planet colonized after the destruction of Earth. The eponymous protagonist, born under dark auspices, brings light to the world. [JC]
Olivia Brown Caldecott
born Pretoria, South Africa: 1 June 1927
died Bath, Somerset: 23 May 2015
works (highly selected)
series
Tall Stones
- The Tall Stones (London: Rex Collings, 1977) [Tall Stones: hb/Leslie Tucker]
- Guardians of the Tall Stones (Berkeley, California: Tricycle Press, 2008) [vt of the above: Tall Stones: pb/Blake Morrow]
- Temple of the Sun (London: Rex Collings, 1977) [Tall Stones: hb/Honi Werner]
- Shadow on the Stones (London: Rex Collings, 1978) [Tall Stones: hb/]
- Guardians of the Tall Stones (London: Arrow Books, 1986) [omni of the above three: Tall Stones: pb/]
- The Silver Vortex (London: Century Hutchinson/Arrow, 1987) [Tall Stones: pb/M Posen]
individual titles (selected)
- Weapons of the Wolfhound (London: Rex Collings, 1976) [hb/]
- Child of the Dark Star (Frome, Somerset: Bran's Head Books, 1984) [pb/]
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