Logan, Charles
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1930- ) UK author, and nurse for the mentally handicapped. Shipwreck (1975) won the 1975 Gollancz/Sunday Times sf contest jointly with Chris Boyce's Catchworld (1975). Calmly and inexorably, it tells the story of the inevitable death of a man whose Spaceship lands disabled on a planet orbiting Capella; the Ecology he is faced with is inimical to human survival. That this grim anti-Robinsonade telegraphs the most likely outcome of such an occurrence from the outset has never made the tale popular with readers. [JC]
Charles Logan
born 1930
works
- Shipwreck (London: Victor Gollancz, 1975) [hb/nonpictorial]
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