Adams, Ian
Entry updated 14 April 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1937-2021) Tanzanian-born screenwriter, journalist and author, in Canada from his late teens. Most of his novels are non-fantastic political thrillers, though the first, The Trudeau Papers (1971), depicts a successful Near-Future American Invasion of Canada, in which the victors "accidentally" use nuclear Weapons. Much of the tale depicts the guerrilla resistance of Canadians to the take-over, which had been effected in order to "protect" the commercial interests of the behemoth to the South. The Trudeau of the title is of course Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000), who became prime minister in 1980. [JC]
Ian Adams
born Tabora, Tanganyika Territory [now Tanzania]: 22 July 1937
died Peterborough, Ontario: 7 November 2021
works (highly selected)
- The Trudeau Papers (Toronto, Ontario: McClelland and Stewart, 1971) [hb/]
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