Crawshay-Williams, Eliot
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1879-1962) UK politician (Liberal Member of Parliament 1910-1913), playwright and author, whose surname at birth was Williams; when he adopted the full hyphenated surname is uncertain; in active service during World War One, and as a playwright (his dramas were nonfantastic) from around 1930. His first novel of any sf interest, Night in No Time: A Novel (1946) is a Timeslip fantasy. His Time Paradox story, "The Man Who Met Himself" (in The Man Who Met Himself and Other Stories, coll 1947), deals with the familiar sf trope of encountering an older/younger version of oneself; other tales of interest in this volume include "The Strange Sight of John Smith", whose protagonist uses X-ray vision (see Rays) to detect his wife's lover. The Wolf from the West: Tracing the Glorious Tragedy of Glyndwr (1947) is another Timeslip tale, whose protagonist finds himself in the world of Owen Glendower. [DRL/JC/JE]
Leonard Eliot Crawshay-Williams
born Kensington, Middlesex [now London]: 4 September 1879
died Kent: 11 May 1962
works
- Night in No Time: A Novel (London: John Long, 1946) [hb/]
- The Wolf from the West: Tracing the Glorious Tragedy of Glyndwr (London: John Long, 1947) [hb/Mrs F M'Connell]
- Heaven Takes a Hand (London: John Long, 1952) [hb/]
collections
- Borderline and Other Stories (London: John Long, 1946) [coll: hb/nonpictorial]
- The Man Who Met Himself and Other Stories (London: John Long, 1947) [coll: hb/uncredited]
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