Fergusson, Adam
Entry updated 10 June 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1932- ) UK politician, journalist and author, Conservative member of Parliament 1979-1984, a strong supporter of Britain's membership in the EEC. Of his nonfiction, he is best known for When Money Dies (1975), narrative description of the effect of hyperinflation on the 1920s Weimar Republic. His first novel, Roman Go Home (1969), is a mildly fantasticated Satire on the Roman Empire's abandonment of Britain in the fifth century CE. His second novel, The Lost Embassy (1972), is a spoofish reflection on recent European history through the lens of the complicated intrigues that govern the fate of Carpathia, a Ruritania in the mountains of inner Europe.
Fergusson is of stronger sf interest for Scone: A Likely Tale (2004), a Political Satire set in Near Future Scotland and England, focusing on the chaos (as here depicted) consequent on Scottish devolution. [JC]
Adam Dugdale Fergusson
born UK: 10 July 1932
works (selected)
- Roman Go Home (London: Collins, 1969) [hb/Kenneth Farnhill]
- The Lost Embassy (London: Collins, 1972) [hb/]
- Scone: A Likely Tale (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 2004) [hb/Don Macpherson]
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