Woolf, Alex
Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1964- ) UK author, much of whose work has comprised popular nonfiction about a wide range of historical and contemporary issues; most of his fiction has appeared in series, invariably for children or Young Adult readers. Some are of direct sf interest. The Chronosphere sequence beginning with Time Out of Time (2012) revolves around the complications attending use of the eponymous central device, a Keep designed to allow its residents, through a form of Time Distortion, to escape the temporal flow of their personal histories; but the world to which the young protagonists eventually return has been malignly transformed by Religion. The Alternate History Iron Sky sequence beginning with Dread Eagle (2014) is set in a Steampunk rendering of Victorian Britain, with France and England at war; armoured Airships clash in the skies, which also contain floating Cities, while ornate Robots are very common. The Time Detectives sequence, beginning with The Disappearance of Danny Doyle (2014), carries its young protagonists via their Uncle Theo's Time Machine into various eras, where mysteries are solved. Soul Shadows (2013), a singleton, is horror; Mind Swap (2015), also a singleton, is an Identity Exchange tale. [JC]
Alex Woolf
born London: 24 January 1964
works (selected)
series
Chronosphere
- Time Out of Time (Brighton, Sussex: Salariya Book Company/Scribo, 2012) [Chronosphere: pb/]
- Malfunction (Brighton, Sussex: Salariya Book Company/Scribo, 2012) [Chronosphere: pb/]
- Ex Tempora (Brighton, Sussex: Salariya Book Company/Scribo, 2012) [Chronosphere: pb/]
Aldo Moon
- Aldo Moon and the Ghost at Gravewood Hall (Brighton, Sussex: Salariya Book Company/Scribo, 2013) [Aldo Moon: pb/]
Iron Sky
- Dread Eagle (Brighton, Sussex: Salariya Book Company/Scribo, 2014) [Iron Sky: pb/]
- Call of the Phoenix (Brighton, Sussex: Salariya Book Company/Scribo, 2015) [Iron Sky: pb/]
The Time Detectives
- The Disappearance of Danny Doyle (London: ReadZone Books/Ludlow, Shropshire: Fiction Express, 2014) [chap: Time Detectives: pb/]
- The Mystery of Maddie Musgrove (London: ReadZone Books/Ludlow, Shropshire: Fiction Express, 2014) [chap: Time Detectives: pb/]
- The Curse of Castle Cranston (London: ReadZone Books/Ludlow, Shropshire: Fiction Express, 2014) [Time Detectives: pb/]
- The Tale of Tutankhamun's Treasure (London: ReadZone Books/Ludlow, Shropshire: Fiction Express, 2016) [Time Detectives: pb/]
individual titles
- Soul Shadows (London: Curious Fox, 2013) [pb/]
- Mind Swap (London: ReadZone Books/Ludlow, Shropshire: Fiction Express, 2015) [chap: pb/]
collections and stories
- The Remington (place not given: Phrenic Press, 2016) [story: ebook: na/]
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