Evans, Gerald
Entry updated 23 June 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1910-1986) Welsh telecommunications worker and author, who began publishing sf with "Pebbles of Dread" in Thrilling Wonder Stories for August 1940, and who wrote one sf adventure, The Black Sphere (1952) as by Victor La Salle, a House Name. A later collection, Shadows in Landore: The Collected Stories of Gerald Evans, Volume 1 (coll 1979 chap), was self-published; no further volumes appeared. As the Co-ordinator for the Life Extension Society he wrote the Cryonics article "Freeze, Wait, Re-animate" (November 1966 Nature). [SH]
see also: Swan Yankee Magazine.
Gerald Evans
born Fforestfach, Swansea, Wales: 25 May 1910
died Landore, Swansea, Wales: 25 January 1986
works
- The Black Sphere (London: John Spencer and Co, 1952) as by Victor La Salle [pb/Norman Light]
- Shadows in Landore: The Collected Stories of Gerald Evans, Volume 1 (Swansea, Wales: A Morfa Production, 1979) [coll: chap: pb/]
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