Bell, Ted
Entry updated 6 February 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1946-2023) US advertising executive (ending in 2001 as Creative Director at Young and Rubicam) and author, best known for the Lord Alex Hawke series of nonfantastic political thrillers beginning with Hawke (2003) [series not listed below]. He is of sf interest for the Young Adult Nick McIver Time Adventure series beginning with Nick of Time: An Adventure Through Time (2000), whose young protagonist lives with his brave father in 1939 on the "smallest" of the Channel Islands; their attempts to fend off a Nazi Invasion by a super submarine (see Under the Sea) are soon complicated by the discovery of a Time Machine which takes Nick back to 1805, where he must fend off the devious aims of Napoleon. In the second volume, The Time Pirate: A Nick McIver Time Adventure (2010), Nick employs a mysteriously preserved World War One fighter plane to fight off the invasion. But the kidnapping of his sister, who is now trapped in 1781, forces him to prevent a pirate navy from sabotaging the American Revolution. The deliberate Boys'-Paper exuberance of the sequence is mostly winning. [JC]
Theodore Augustus Bell III
born Tampa, Florida: 3 July 1946
died Greenwich, Connecticut: 20 January 2023
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series
Nick McIver Time Adventure
- Nick of Time: An Adventure Through Time (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Xlibris Corporation, 2000) [Nick McIver Time Adventure: hb/]
- The Time Pirate: A Nick McIver Time Adventure (New York: St Martin's Griffin, 2010) [Nick McIver Time Adventure: illus/hb/Russ Kramer]
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