Jackson, Basil
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1920- ) Welsh-born author, in Canada from 1948, who specialized in Technothrillers set either at the edge of the present, or in the very Near Future, beginning with Epicenter (1971), where Toronto is threatened by a very bad leak of radioactive material. Rage Under the Arctic (1974) concentrates on a sabotaged nuclear tanker submarine; in The Night Manhattan Burned (1979), Manhattan (see New York) is rammed by a supertanker full of explosive gas. Other tales, like Supersonic (1975) and Spill! (1979), hover just short of the fantastic. [JC]
Basil Jackson
born Swansea, Wales: 3 April 1920
works
- Epicenter (New York: W W Norton and Co, 1971) [hb/]
- Rage Under the Arctic (New York: W W Norton and Co, 1974) [hb/]
- Supersonic (New York: W W Norton and Co, 1975) [hb/]
- The Night Manhattan Burned (New York: W W Norton and Co, 1979) [hb/]
- Spill! (London: Sphere Books, 1979) [pb/]
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