Haley, Russell
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1934- ) UK-born author, in Australia from 1961 to 1966, and New Zealand subsequently. His work, from the poetry of the early 1970s on, has been Equipoisal (see Postmodernism and SF) as regards any fixing of generic content, notably in the stories assembled in Real Illusions: A Selection of Family Lies and Biographical Fictions in Which the Ancestral Dead Also Play Their Part (coll 1984) and A Spider-Web Season; & The Transfer Station (coll 2000). The Settlement (1986) fabulates its protagonist's breakdown into a vision of a totalitarian Dystopia. [JC]
Russell Haley
born Dewsbury, Yorkshire: 1934
works
- Real Illusions: A Selection of Family Lies and Biographical Fictions in Which the Ancestral Dead Also Play Their Part (Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, 1984) [coll: hb/]
- The Settlement (Auckland, New Zealand: Hodder and Stoughton, 1986) [hb/]
- A Spider-Web Season; & The Transfer Station (Christchurch, New Zealand: Hazard Press, 2000) [coll: pb/]
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