Barren, Charles
Entry updated 16 September 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1913-1999) UK teacher and author, best known for historical romances; co-author with R Cox Abel of Trivana I (1966), in which an overpopulated Earth uses the titular Spaceship (powered by an Ion Drive) to establish a Venus colony (see Colonization of Other Worlds). Barren also scripted a sf drama, "The Planet of the Ants", for ITV in 1978. He was chairman of the Science Fiction Foundation from its inception in 1970 until his retirement in 1980, subsequently serving as its Honorary Administrator 1980-1984, materially helping in its survival before it was able to leave the University of East London in 1993. [JC]
Charles Frederick Thomas Barren [adopted the single middle name MacKinnon]
born London: 21 December 1913
died Gravesend, Kent: May 1999
works
- Trivana I (London: Library 33, 1966) with R Cox Abel [title page thus while jacket gives Trivana One: hb/uncredited]
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