Ireland, David
Entry updated 30 June 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1927-2022) Australian author whose A Woman of the Future (1979), his best-known work of sf interest, depicts a bizarre but positively conceived set of futures through which his protagonist searches, and finds congenial. City of Women (1981), on the other hand, presents a Feminist vision of separatism whose ending befits its Alice in Wonderland style, as the vision turns out to be the hallucination of a lonely woman. Archimedes and the Seagle (1984), a fantasy, presents the memoirs of a Dog. [JC]
David Neil Ireland
born Lakemba, New South Wales: 24 August 1927
died Sydney, New South Wales: 26 July 2022
works
- A Woman of the Future (New York: Braziller, 1979) [hb/]
- City of Women (Ringwood, Victoria: Allen Lane, 1981) [hb/]
- Archimedes and the Seagle (London: Allen Lane, 1984) [hb/]
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