Barr, Densil Neve
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of UK author Douglas Norton Buttrey (1918-1994), whose sf novel, The Man with Only One Head (1955), develops the theme of novels like Pat Frank's Mr Adam (1946): only one man (his name is Adams) is left fertile; and the subsequent moralistic World Federation set up to deal with the crisis is riddled with dissension. The effect is of offhand Satire rather than simple incompetence. [JC]
Douglas Norton Buttrey
born Harrogate, Yorkshire: 12 September 1918
died Epping Forest, Essex: 1994
works
- The Man with Only One Head (London: Rich and Cowan, 1955) [hb/]
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