MARLOW, Louis

   Pseudonym of UK writer and lecturer in English studies Louis Umfreville Wilkinson (1881-1966), who also wrote novels under his real name. Of sf interest is The Devil in Crystal (1944) which, in LM's typically pert, dandiacal, somewhat overeager manner, describes the effects of a sort of self-possession. The protagonist finds himself cast 20 years into his own past, where he relives his life while being all the while conscious of his observer status and of his almost total inability to alter reality.

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   See also: TIME TRAVEL.