Daventry, Leonard
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1915-1987) UK author whose first sf novel, A Man of Double Deed (1965), began the Claus Coman series of tales set on an Earth partly recovered from nuclear Disaster and run by Telepaths, one of whom, the protagonist, is assigned the task of solving various problems. The sequels, two book-length stories, were published together as Reflections in a Mirage, and The Ticking Is in Your Head (coll 1969) and later appeared separately as Reflections in a Mirage (1969) and The Ticking Is in Your Head (1970), by Robert Hale Limited, for which firm Daventry wrote most of his remaining novels. The best of these is probably Terminus (1971), a grim Dystopia; but it is his first, quite remarkably bleak novel for which Daventry is now best remembered. [JC]
Leonard John Daventry
born London: 7 March 1915
died London: 1987
works
series
Claus Coman
- A Man of Double Deed (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965) [Claus Coman: hb/]
- Reflections in a Mirage, and The Ticking Is in Your Head (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1969) [coll: Claus Coman: hb/Emanuel Schongut]
- Reflections in a Mirage (London: Robert Hale, 1969) [publishing the first of the two stories contained in the above: Claus Coman: hb/]
- The Ticking Is in Your Head (London: Robert Hale, 1970) [publishing the second of the two stories contained in the above: Claus Coman: hb/]
individual titles
- Terminus (London: Robert Hale, 1971) [hb/Lawrence Cutting]
- Twenty-One Billionth Paradox (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1971) [hb/Pat Stier]
- Degree XII (London: Robert Hale, 1972) [hb/]
- You Must Remember Us – ? (London: Robert Hale, 1980) [hb/]
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