Trevor Hoyle (born 25 February 1940 in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom) is an English people science fiction author. In the late 1970s he gained recognition for his "Q" series, featuring Christian Queghan, a scientific investigator possessing the ability to journey through time as well as to hypothetical worlds.[ From Coronation Street to the Kingdom of Darkness: Trevor Hoyle Interviewed by Andrew Hedgecock - Black Static Issue #36, 2003] As well as a number of Blake's 7 novels.[ Authors : Hoyle, Trevor : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia][ TREVOR HOYLE, Blake's 7, TRASH FICTION] Hoyle also writes as Larry Milne and Joseph Rance.
'Q' series
In the
Q series, Chris Queghan is an
anthropologist on Earth IVn, a colonial offshoot of Earth billions of years from the present day. In the first novel,
Seeking the Mythical Future, Queghan is apparently an
astronaut who travels through the
event horizon of a
black hole into an alternate universe, whose "Earth IVn" is a dystopia. "Queghan" lands in a blood-red sea,
leeches are still actively used within medicine,
roam hospital corridors and hospital hygiene is non-existent, "King Jimmy K" (
Jimmy Carter) rules an intact and absolutist British Empire which includes "New Amerika", mental health professionals control the "Medikal Direkorate Authority" and "Psychological Concentration Camps",
Australasia (Australia) is still a penal continent for the empire and
torture is considered to be a legitimate criminal justice procedure. However, it turns out that the astronaut who has been trapped on "Earth IVn" is not Queghan, but another astronaut who crossed the event horizon and entered its alternate universe, which is in resonance with the auditory and visual hallucinations of Stahl, who is experiencing
schizophrenia in a psychiatric hospital ward of the original Earth IVn. However, it is still an hallucination and when its faux-Queghan figure disappears, so does the surrounding hallucinatory facade. In
Through the Eye of Time,
Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists control an alternate thirties United Kingdom, and ally themselves with
Nazi Germany against France, Japan and the United States. Finally, in
The Gods Look Down, an anachronistic matter replicator device is being used in biblical
Canaan to help feed itinerant
Hebrew communities after the
The Exodus from ancient
Egypt.
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Seeking the Mythical Future - Panther, 1977 ()
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Through the Eye of Time - Panther, 1977 ()
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The Gods Look Down - Panther, 1978 ()
Blake's 7
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Terry Nation's Blake's 7 (1977) (adapts the Series 1 episodes "The Way Back", "Space Fall", "Cygnus Alpha" and "Time Squad")
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Project Avalon (1979) (adapts the Series 1 episodes "Seek–Locate–Destroy", "Duel", "Project Avalon", "Deliverance" and "Orac")
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Scorpio Attack (1981) (adapts the Series 4 episodes "Rescue", "Traitor" and "Stardrive")
Other works
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Rule of Night (1975)
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Earth Cult (1979)
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The Man Who Travelled on Motorways (1979)
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This Sentient Earth (1979)
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Bullet Train (1980 – with Arei Kato)
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The Svengali Plot (1980)
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Through The Eye of Time (1982)
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The Gods Look Down (1982)
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The Last Gasp (1983)
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Vail (1984)
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Scorpio Attack (1984)
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Kids (1987)
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Blind Needle (1994)
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Mirrorman (1999)
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