Appleyard, Bryan
Entry updated 27 October 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1951- ) UK author whose sf novel, The First Church of the New Millennium (1994), conflates, not entirely convincingly (see Mainstream Writers of SF), two forms of human aspiration: the building of a great new cathedral to stand athwart the perils of the new century, and a manned mission to Mars. [JC]
Bryan Edward Appleyard
born Manchester, England: 24 August 1951
works
- The First Church of the New Millennium (London: Doubleday, 1994) [hb/Richard Ivey]
nonfiction (highly selected)
- Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (London: Penguin Books, 2019) with James Lovelock [hb/]
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