Dixon, Roger
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1930-1983) UK accountant and author whose 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. A second novel, The Cain Factor (1975) as by Charles Lewis, mixes Sex and apocalypse as a man and a woman escape a Post-Holocaust Earth to become the Adam and Eve of a new planet. [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
- The Cain Factor (London: Harwood-Smart, 1975) as by Charles Lewis [hb/]
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