Dixon, Roger
Entry updated 24 March 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1930-1983) UK accountant and author, who also wrote as by Charles Lewis and (almost certainly) John Christian; his epic adventure about humankind's future fate, Noah II (1970; rev 1975), is based on a story idea by Dixon and his agent, Basil Bova, and began the aborted Quest series. Five Gates to Armageddon (1975) as by John Christian is a Near Future thriller involving a new Weapon in the hands of fanatics in the Middle East. The Cain Factor (1975) as by Charles Lewis, though begun in a Technothriller style, unfolds into a genuine Near Future Scientific Romance; after World War Three is narrowly averted through the mistaken assumption that the Sun is about to go nova, a pilot expedition finds a new planet, using a new Power Source and Suspended Animation to get there. This world, occupied by a planetary Hive Mind, is genuinely due to explode. The crew escapes back to a Post-Holocaust Earth inhabited by killer Mutants; one couple escapes to a yet another planet where, anticipating much Sex, they become the Adam and Eve of a new start for Homo sapiens. [JC]
see also: Generation Starships; Spaceships.
Roger Dixon
born Portsmouth, Hampshire: 6 January 1930
died 18 April 1983
works
series
Quest
- Noah II (New York: Ace Books, 1970) [Quest: pb/Jack Gaughan]
- The Quest: Noah II (London: Harwood-Smart, 1975) [rev vt of the above: Quest: hb/]
- Christ on Trial (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1973) [not determined if this is a vt of Noah II or a separate narrative based on a film of the original story which may not have been made: Quest: pb/]
individual titles
- Five Gates to Armageddon (Lewes, Sussex: Harwood-Smart Publishing Company, 1975) as by John Christian [hb/]
- The Cain Factor (Lewes, Sussex: Harwood-Smart Publishing Company, 1975) as by Charles Lewis [hb/Maurice Phillips]
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