(1945-    ) US teacher and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Touch the Earth" for Edges (anth 1980) edited by Ursula K Le Guin; most of his work has been nonfiction, much of comprising nature studies set in America. His first novel, Terrarium (1985), is set in a Near Future America whose human population has retreated from the polluted world into domed Cities (> Keep); the tale neatly expresses some late-twentieth-century guilts and their redemption, for the few humans who leave the domes find a rejuvenated Nature outdoors (> Ecology). The Engineer of Beasts (1988), a Young Adult tale, is concerned with Genetic Engineering. The Invisible Company (1989) examines the cost of maintaining a colony of immortals (> Immortality) in a place called Paradise Island, to which the protagonist is ominously called. [JC]

Scott Russell Sanders

born Memphis, Tennessee: 26 October 1945

died

works (highly selected)

• Fetching the Dead: Stories (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1984) [coll: hb/]
• Terrarium (New York: Tor, 1985) [pb/Angus McKie]
• Bad Man Ballad (New York: Bradbury Press, 1986) [hb/]
• The Engineer of Beasts (New York: Orchard Books, 1988) [hb/Ponder Goembel]
• The Invisible Company (New York: Tor, 1989) [pb/]

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