Trevor Hoyle (born 25 February 1940 in

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, England, United Kingdom) is an

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. 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. As well as a number of ''

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'' novels.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

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of a black hole into an alternate universe, whose "Earth IVn" is a dystopia. "Queghan" lands in a blood-red sea,

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are still actively used within medicine, rats roam hospital corridors and hospital hygiene is non-existent, "King Jimmy K" (

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) rules an intact and absolutist British Empire which includes "New Amerika", mental health professionals control the "Medikal Direkorate Authority" and "Psychological Concentration Camps",

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(Australia) is still a penal continent for the empire and

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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

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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'',

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and the British Union of Fascists control an alternate thirties United Kingdom, and ally themselves with

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against France, Japan and the United States. Finally, in ''The Gods Look Down,'' an anachronistic matter replicator device is being used in biblical

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to help feed itinerant

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communities after the

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from ancient

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. * ''Seeking the Mythical Future'' - Panther, 1977 () * ''Through the Eye of Time'' - Panther, 1977 () * ''The Gods Look Down'' - Panther, 1978 ()

''Blake's 7''

*''Terry Nation's Blake's 7'' (1977) (adapts the Series 1 episodes "The Way Back", "Space Fall", "Cygnus Alpha" and "Time Squad") *''Project Avalon'' (1979) (adapts the Series 1 episodes "Seek–Locate–Destroy", "Duel", "Project Avalon", "Deliverance" and "Orac") *''Scorpio Attack'' (1981) (adapts the Series 4 episodes "Rescue", "Traitor" and "Stardrive") *''Afterlife'' (1984) (continuation of events after the final televised episode "Blake")

Other work

*''Rule of Night'' (1975) *''Earth Cult'' (1979) *''The Man Who Travelled on Motorways'' (1979) *''The Svengali Plot'' (1980) *''

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'' (1983) *''Vail'' (1984)

References

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