Gold, Alan
Entry updated 29 June 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1945-2024) UK journalist and author, in Australia from 1970, active from 1975 onward. Most of his novels are historical thrillers; he is of sf interest for Bat out of Hell: An Eco-Thriller (2015), a tale of global Pandemic whose mutant virus, spread by bats, is one hundred per cent fatal. As panic grows the only countermeasure seems to be wholesale extermination of bats, a policy violently opposed by animal rights activists who duly become eco-terrorists (see Ecology). The science is intermittently shaky, as is the author's grasp of US politics and military protocols. [DRL]
Alan Gold
born Leicester, Leicestershire: 1945
died Sydney, New South Wales: 18 June 2024
works
- Bat out of Hell: An Eco-Thriller (New York: Skyhorse Publishing/Yucca Publishing, 2015) [hb/]
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