Lambert, Derek
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1929-2001) UK journalist and author who specialized in political thrillers, and, writing as Richard Falkirk, in the nonfantastic Bow Street Runner sequence of proto-policiers set in the early nineteenth century. He is of sf interest for The Memory Man (1979) whose protagonist, after coming to life after death (see Reincarnation), feels he has found a land to explore; and for The Red Dove (1982), a Near Future Technothriller about the defection of a Russian cosmonaut to the United States. [JC]
Derek William Lambert
born London: 10 October 1929
died Denia, Spain: 10 April 2001
works (highly selected)
- The Memory Man (London: Arlington Books, 1979) [hb/]
- The Red Dove (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982) [hb/George Wilson]
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