"I have a function, like the village cobbler, and that is to tell stories. Everything else is subservient to that." Although he makes no lofty claims for himself in the note he writes for John Rowe Townsend's A Sounding of Storytellers (1979), Peter...

Peter Dickinson categorizes his special brand of mystery as science fiction with far more fiction than science. When he imagines the closed world of a classic detective story, he tries to invent it as if it were an alien planet. The result is a...

"The only thing we may predict about Peter Dickinson is that his next book will always be unpredictable," concluded a Junior Bookshelf reviewer. Although the reviewer referred to Dickinson's books for children, the same may be said about his equally...

Following traditions of donnish wit, romance, and scientific interest represented variously by G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, and Michael Innes, Peter Dickinson has written among the most imaginative and bizarre detective novels of the 1970s and 1980s....