4 Books by Edward Llewellyn
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Overview: Edward Llewellyn-Thomas (15 December 1917 – 5 July 1984) was an English scientist, university professor and, writing as Edward Llewellyn, a science fiction author. Llewellyn-Thomas published sixty scientific articles on psychology and eye movement over the course of his life. Active in the field of pharmacology, he took interest in the ethical development of biomedical science. His Douglas Convolution science fiction series concerns the breakdown of civilization after most of a generation is born sterile as a side effect of a widely used anti-cancer medication.
Genre:Fiction > Science Fiction
The Douglas Convolution
This is a great piece of Science Fiction. Ian Douglas, a Vietnam Vet and mathematician, is suddenly dropped 200 years forward in time to a world just recovering from an apocalyptic drop in population. As civilization struggles to regain it’s footing on the North American East Coast, Douglas is forced to impersonate a solder he killed in self defense. Douglas bides his time looking for an escape before his deception is found out. Meanwhile an army of remarkable brutality is emerging from the wilds of the Appalachia’s and only a trained guerrilla jungle fighter can hold them at bay. Slowly Douglas comes to realize he is not the only time traveler on the scene. All the while Llewellyn slowly builds sexual tension between Douglas and his jailer/pilot/comrade. If you read through all of Llewellyn’s work you will find he clearly learned much of his writing from Heinlein. Llewellyn maintains the Universe he creates here through his five other Science Fiction.
Salvage and Destroy
Simply a masterpiece: ambitious, well-written, and timely
Llewellyn has been severly overlooked by the science-fiction community, and I’ve never understood why. Like Heinlein, Azimov, and a number of other great authors, he has written a series of novels based on carefully thought-out future history, a history which is extremely conceivable. Most of these novels are set before, during, and at various periods after the mankind’s numbers on Earth are severely cut-down due to unforseen side-effects of wonder-drugs and chemicals which render a huge portion of the world’s population sterile. All of his books have great character development, compelling story-lines, and characters one can identify with.
Salvage and Destroy is set in the same future history, but the protagonist is an alien from a distant empire who is sent by his decaying and corrupt government to Earth in the late 20th Century to "Salvage" what he can from a world which seems poised on the brink of nuclear destruction, and to "Destroy" the satellite placed in the solar system lest humans find it and follow its broadcast trail to their own empire.
The story weaves together many complicated items extremely well… politics, ancient foes, and most especially what it means to be human, and what is the nature of God and the Universe.
The Bright Companion
Wanted: fifty fertile females! . . . When the by-product of the greatest contraceptive ever discovered turned out to be sterility for the next generation, the result was predictable. Within a century the population of the ‘civilized’ world dropped to a tiny remnant of narrow-minded survivors. Their few communities were ruled by hard-shelled fanatics whose prime need was women who could still bear children.
Communites containing fertile women were the only centers of purposeful life, and the only such communities we the scattered settlements. An educated and energetic young man was trapped between a society of agin illiterates and a community of selfish bigots. The only place within reach was Sherando, and his name was reviled there. The only place the young man could think of was the Enclave. His father said that the Enclave was the one civilized state which might survive the Chaos Intact. It was the root fron which the settlements had sprung. He knew little about it except it survived and lay somewhere on the far side of tha Atlantic Ocean. Ultimately it was his only option for survival.
Fugitive in Transit
This novel is a briskly paced seriocomic intrigue and adventure yarn set in a typically Llewellynesque milieu in which poor barbaric humanity is being gently guided by an idealistically hyper-civilized (no war, and all that) higher alien intelligence. Yet this novel is written with a much lighter touch than most of Llewellyn’s earlier books, some of which are dour and serious to a fault.
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