Maurice, Michael
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of UK clergyman, teacher and author Conrad Arthur Skinner (1889-1975), whose sf novel Not in Our Stars (1923) can be forgiven its confused science – giant meteorites are supposed to cause perturbations in spacetime, Time Distortions sufficient to reverse its flow for the protagonist – because of the odd intensity of the tale. Awakening in a death cell after a meteor strike, he is executed and then begins to relive his life (each day passing normally, but with him awakening each dawn a day earlier) with foreknowledge of the murder he has committed/will commit in error. The end of this unusual Time in Reverse story is ambiguous, with some hint that, on re-entering the normal flow of time, he will be able to avoid the deed. A later novel, Marooned: A Romance (1932), is an Afterlife fantasy [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. [JC]
Reverend Conrad Arthur Skinner
born Dereham, Norfolk: 1 May 1889
died Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: 21 November 1975
works
- Not in Our Stars (London: T Fisher Unwin, 1923) [hb/]
- Marooned: A Romance (London: Sampson Low and Co, 1932) [hb/]
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