Hussey, David
Entry updated 21 April 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1903-1959) UK author of a Utopia, No Sting, No Honey (1938), set on a South Pacific Island where women, following rigid Eugenic precepts, have transformed themselves into the dominant sex (see Feminism); the society itself is organized like a bee hive. Some of the Club Stories assembled in Fort Carteret (coll of linked stories 1948) venture into the fantastic. [JC]
David Macdonald Hussey
born London: 7 April 1903
died London: 9 September 1959
works
- No Sting, No Honey (London: Arthur Barker, 1938) [hb/]
- Fort Carteret (London: Methuen, 1948) [coll of linked stories: hb/]
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