Maddock, Reginald
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1912-1994) UK author, mostly for Young Adult readers. His first sf novel, The Time Maze (1960), is a literate Time Travel tale whose protagonists, lost in a mysterious cave, find that its innumerable luminescent passages take them to exemplary experiences in three past eras: the time of the Dinosaurs, of Neanderthal man, and in a Neolithic community. Unusually, it is women not men who are seen to be emblematic of Evolution at work. The second paragraph of the tale paraphrases the memorable first sentence of Richard Jefferies's After London; or, Wild England (1885). The Great Bow (1964) is Prehistoric SF about a young outcast who invents the first bow and arrow. [JC]
Reginald Bertram Maddock
born Warrington, Lancashire [now Cheshire]: 9 August 1912
died Warrington, Cheshire [following 1974 boundary change]: July 1994
works
- The Time Maze (London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1960) [hb/Robert Hodgson]
- The Great Bow (London: Collins, 1964) [hb/]
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