Mace, Elisabeth
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1933- ) UK author of Young Adult novels, of which several are of sf interest. The Leven sequence – comprising Ransome Revisited (1975; vt Out There 1975) and The Ruston Inheritance (1978) – is set in a depopulated Ruined-Earth UK, initially in an isolated dictatorial enclave in the UK, from which the young protagonists escape; the second volume, set in the same world, begins a process of recovery of the past. The Freedom Cage (1980) follows its protagonist into an isolated mountain village which may be a Zoo – or research station – run by Aliens; in Under Siege (1988), the characters in a Computer game (see Games and Sports) come to life. [JC]
Elisabeth Mace
born 1933
works
series
Leven
- Ransome Revisited (London: André Deutsch, 1975) [Leven: hb/]
- Out There (New York: Greenwillow Books, 1975) [vt of the above: Leven: hb/]
- The Travelling Man (London: Andre Deutsch, 1975) [Leven: hb/]
- The Rushton Inheritance (London: André Deutsch, 1978) [Leven: hb/]
individual titles
- The Ghost Diviners (London: André Deutsch, 1977) [hb/]
- The Freedom Cage (London: André Deutsch, 1980) [hb/]
- Under Siege (London: André Deutsch, 1988) [hb/]
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