Savage, Richard
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of UK author Ivan Roe (1917-1976) for his thrillers – including The Horrible Hat (1949), in which a psychoanalyst/detective explains strange manifestations – and his sf novel, When the Moon Died: A Modern Novel of Science and Imagination (1955), whose telling involves an exceedingly complicated frame: far-future Aliens visit a dead Earth to listen to a tape whose long-dead narrator has discovered how, long before, a nuclear Holocaust was prevented by Scientists who destroyed the Moon but subsequently established a totalitarian Dystopia. The aliens never do work out why Earth is now bereft of life. Under his own name Roe wrote some non-genre novels, including The Salamander Touch (1952), in which an atomic scientist disappears with difficult consequences. [JC/PN]
Ivan George William Roe
born London: 12 November 1917 [birth record in 1939 Register wrongly gives 1913]
died Hounslow, London: December 1976
works
- The Horrible Hat (London: Jarrolds Publishers, 1949) [hb/]
- The Salamander Touch (London: Hutchinson, 1952) as Ivan Roe [hb/Chadwick]
- When the Moon Died: A Modern Novel of Science and Imagination (London: Ward, Lock and Company, 1955) [in the Modern Novels of Science and Imagination series: hb/]
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