Meyers, Roy
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1910-1974) UK practising physician and author whose first sf novel, The Man They Couldn't Kill (1944), introduces the vastly talented Dr D'eath, a Superman capable of inducing Hypnotic trances at a distance and of scientifically arranging for souls to take out-of-body excursions. Falsely convicted of a murder, D'eath clears his name and might have starred in a sequence of Doc Savage-like adventures had the book been successful. Meyers is best known for the later Dolphin series about the relationship and modes of Communication between dolphins and humans: Dolphin Boy (1967; vt Dolphin Rider 1968), Daughters of the Dolphin (1968) and Destiny and the Dolphins (1969). Meyers's style is wooden, but his interest in dolphins is obviously profound, and the novels are easy reading, though their mixture of melodrama and didacticism may not be to everyone's taste. [JC]
see also: Under the Sea.
Roy Lethbridge Meyers
born Hounslow, Middlesex: 17 November 1910
died Stogumber, Somerset: 13 February 1974
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series
Dolphin
- Dolphin Boy (New York: Ballantine Books, 1967) [Dolphin: pb/Bob Abbett]
- Dolphin Rider (London: Rapp and Whiting, 1968) [vt of the above: hb/Lawrence Edwards]
- Daughters of the Dolphin (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968) [Dolphin: pb/]
- Destiny and the Dolphins (New York: Ballantine Books, 1969) [Dolphin: pb/]
individual titles
- The Man They Couldn't Kill (London: Black Friars Press, 1944) [hb/]
- Gift of the Manti (Toronto, Ontario: Laser Books, 1977) with J F Bone [Meyers's name is here spelled Myers, almost certainly in error: pb/Kelly Freas]
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