Rakoff, Alvin
Entry updated 21 October 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1927-2024) Canadian film and television director, and latterly author, active from around 1950, almost exclusively in the UK from 1953. His first career, which focused on producing/directing single plays mostly for Television, with about 100 credits to his name, had waned by around 2000, a point when that format was no longer supported by the industry. He is of some sf interest for his last novel, The Seven Einsteins (2013), which traces the consequence of a 1967 experiment in Genetic Engineering, at the behest of the American government, involving the implantation of DNA into seven foetuses, with the aim that they become Secret Masters capable of saving the planet. Forty years later, the seven children, having been scattered across the world to test the interactions of nurture and implanted "nature", are brought together. In the meantime, the Scientists originally involved have been murdered. The forgiveness of God for interfering with nature has been implored. [JC]
Alvin Rakoff
born Toronto, Ontario: 6 February 1927
died London: 12 October 2024
works (highly selected)
- The Seven Einsteins (no place given: AuthorHouseUK, 2013) [pb/]
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