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3 | Peter Dickinson (1927 – 2015) was a prolific British[[note]]He spent most of his life in England, but was born in Northern Rhodesia in the days when it was part of the British Empire[[/note]] author, who is known both for his crime fiction and for his books for younger readers, of which many are SF. |
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5 | His works include: |
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7 | * The Changes trilogy -- ''The Weathermonger'', ''Heartsease'', and ''The Devil's Children'' -- in which a mysterious supernatural force causes modern England to revert to medieval levels of society and technology, |
8 | * ''The Flight of Dragons'', a mock-scholarly work which claimed that dragons really existed, and flew and breathed fire by means of large amounts of hydrogen generated as a metabolic by-product. |
9 | * "The Kin" - A prehistoric YA series nominated for the Whitbread award. Consists for 4 books named after individual characters, later published as a single volume. |
10 | * "The Blue Hawk" - A novel about a young boy rebelling against a theocratic society, loosely resembling ancient egypt. |
11 | * ''Literature/{{Eva}}'', about a girl who wakes up as a chimpanzee. |
12 | * He has also written a number of adult mystery books, including the James Pibble mysteries and Princess Louise mysteries. |
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14 | The Changes trilogy was adapted loosely for television in 1975, and ''The Flight of Dragons'' even more loosely into [[WesternAnimation/TheFlightOfDragons an animated film]] in 1986. |
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16 | He was awarded an OBE for services to Literature in 2009. |
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19 | !!Peter Dickinson's works provide examples of: |
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21 | * AlternateHistory: ''King and Joker'' and ''Skeleton-in-Waiting'', set in a history where Edward VII's eldest son lived to become king. |
22 | %% * AntiMagic: In ''The Ropemaker'' |
23 | %% * CosyCatastrophe: The Changes |
24 | %% * DugTooDeep: ''Annerton Pit'' |
25 | * HollywoodPrehistory: ''Bone From a Dry Sea'' is partly set four million years ago in a culture based on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_ape_hypothesis aquatic ape hypothesis]], and partly MeanwhileInTheFuture following the archaeologist who's digging up its remains. |
26 | %% * OurDragonsAreDifferent: ''The Flight of Dragons'' |
27 | * {{Prequel}}: The Changes trilogy was written in reverse order -- first ''The Weathermonger'', set at the end of the Changes, then ''Heartsease'', set in their midst, then ''The Devil's Children'', set at their beginning. |
28 | * SplitAtBirth: ''The Lion Tamer's Daughter'' |
29 | * {{Technophobia}}: The trilogy ''The Changes'' has British people suddenly becoming violently technophobic [[spoiler:under what turns out to be a malevolent extra-terrestrial influence]]. |
30 | * WhenSheSmiles: In one of the stories in the collection ''Water: Tales of the Elemental Spirits'', the main character is described as one of these ("Her face lit up with kindness and humor and intelligence.") The same phrase, in an non-ironic echo, is used to describe her LoveInterest. |
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