Cravens, Gwyneth
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US author of The Black Death (1977) with John S Marr, then head of the New York City Bureau of Preventible Diseases, about a Near Future Disaster in which the eponymous plague (see Pandemic) is transmitted unknowingly by a young woman; it was filmed as Quiet Killer (1992). Speed of Light: The Adventures of Ella Speed (1979) carries a young woman in rebellion against "civilized" urban culture into an occultish-group whose mind-control techniques threaten to enable their leader to take over the world. [JC]
Gwyneth Cravens
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- The Black Death (New York: E P Dutton, 1977) with John S Marr [hb/]
- Speed of Light: The Adventures of Ella Speed (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979) [hb/Lucinda Cowell]
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