Allaby, Michael
Entry updated 7 July 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1933-2025) UK actor, editor and author, mostly of nonfiction texts in such fields as Ecology and weather. Acting credits include a few 1964 appearances in Doctor Who (1963-current). His The Greening of Mars (1984) with James Lovelock (of Gaia Hypothesis fame), though basically a nonfiction study of how Mars might be settled (see Terraforming), is told as a fictionalized narrative whose tone is upliftingly Utopian. [JC]
John Michael Allaby
born Belper, Derbyshire: 18 September 1933
died Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland: 4 May 2025
works
- The Greening of Mars (London: André Deutsch, 1984) with James Lovelock [hb/Pat Fogarty]
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