Ballem, John
Entry updated 7 September 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1925-2010) Canadian author, most of whose fiction was nonfantastic, though his Technothrillers focused on the oil industry can verge on the fantastic, as does The Dirty Scenario (1974), and a few tales edge into the Near Future. Alberta secedes from Canada in The Judas Conspiracy (1976); in The Moon Pool (1978), indigenous nations claim independence. [JC]
John Bishop Ballem
born New Glasgow, Nova Scotia: 2 February 1925
died Calgary, Alberta: 9 January 2010
works (highly selected)
- The Dirty Scenario (Toronto, Ontario: General Publishing, 1974) [hb/]
- The Judas Conspiracy (Toronto, Ontario: Musson Book Company, 1976) [hb/]
- Alberta Alone (Toronto, Ontario: Musson Book Company, 1981) [vt of the above: pb/]
- The Moon Pool (Toronto, Ontario: McClelland and Stewart, 12978) [hb/]
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