Darnton, John
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1941- ) US journalist and author, during whose career with the New York Times from 1966 until his retirement in 2005 he earned several prizes for his foreign affairs reporting, including a 1982 Pulitzer Prize. His first three novels are sf; in Neanderthal (1996), a Lost Race of Telepathic Neanderthals, bifurcated into peaceful and warlike segments, is discovered in far Tajikistan, deep in the Himalayas (see Evolution); The Experiment (1999) is a medical sf tale (see Medicine) with Technothriller elements, as Cloning experiments lead into life-extension conspiracies; and Mind Catcher (2002) focuses on two scientists and their increasingly fraught attempts to gain radical insights from a brain-damaged boy, including the capture and retention of the human soul. The Darwin Conspiracy (2005), a fiction based on the early life of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), is nonfantastic. [JC]
John T Darnton
born New York: 20 November 1941
works
- Neanderthal (New York: Random House, 1996) [hb/Kenneth Garrett]
- The Experiment (New York: Penguin/Dutton, 1999) [hb/]
- Mind Catcher (New York: E P Dutton, 2002) [hb/]
- The Darwin Conspiracy (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2005) [hb/]
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