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Saville, Malcolm

(1901-1982) UK editor and author, mostly for younger readers from 1943 until his death, most of his work being grouped into various series, the best known of these being the Lone Pine sequence, centring on a group of young friends who, in the first instalment, Mystery at Witchend (1943), thwart some German spies. Nothing of his work is of sf interest except for one tale in that series, Saucers Over the Moor: A Lone Pine Story (1955), in which the gang discovers more spies, and the eponymous flying saucer (see UFOs). [JC]

Leonard Malcolm Saville

born Hastings, Sussex: 21 February 1901

died Hastings, Sussex: 30 June 1982

works

• Saucers Over the Moor: A Lone Pine Story (London: George Newnes, 1955) [Lone Pine: hb/Bertram Prance]
  • Saucers Over the Moon: A Lone Pine Story (Wendover, Buckinghamshire: Goodchild, 1984) [vt of the above, possibly not deliberate: Lone Pine: hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 00:51 am on 25 May 2026.
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