MEYERS, Roy (Lethbridge)

(1910-1974)

   UK physician and writer whose first sf novel, The Man They Couldn't Kill (1944), introduces the vastly talented Dr D'eath, who is capable of inducing hypnotic trances at a distance and of scientifically arranging for souls to take out-of-body excursions. Falsely convicted of a murder, D'eath clears his name and might have starred in a sequence of Doc Savage-like adventures had the book been successful. RM is best known forthe later Dolphin series about the relationship between dolphins and humans: Dolphin Boy (1967 US; vt Dolphin Rider 1968 UK), Daughters of the Dolphin (1968 US) and Destiny and the Dolphins (1969 US). RM's style iswooden, but his interest in dolphins is obviously profound, and the novels are easy reading, though their mixture of melodrama and didacticism may not be to everyone's taste.

   JC

   Other work: Gift of the Manti (1977 Canada) with J.F. BONE (RM's name is here spelled Myers, almost certainly in error).

   See also: UNDER THE SEA.