Gutteridge, Lindsay
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1923-2007) UK author, commercial artist and art teacher. His sf series featuring Matthew Dilke – Cold War in a Country Garden (1971), Killer Pine (1973) and Fratricide Is a Gas (1975) – calls upon themes from espionage to Ecology to buttress far-fetched tales of a government agent Miniaturized with some companions (see Great and Small) to test the chances of counteracting Overpopulation by resettling the world – the last volume is set in the jungles of Peru – with a miniaturized mankind having a typical height of one-quarter of an inch (6mm). [JC/DRL]
Thomas Gordon Lindsay Gutteridge
born Easington, County Durham: 20 May 1923
died Downham Market, Norfolk: 28 May 2007
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series
Matthew Dilke
- Cold War in a Country Garden (London: Jonathan Cape, 1971) [Matthew Dilke: hb/Bill Botten]
- Killer Pine (London: Jonathan Cape, 1973) [Matthew Dilke: hb/Bill Botten]
- Fratricide Is a Gas (London: Jonathan Cape, 1975) [Matthew Dilke: hb/Bill Botten]
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