Malcolm, Donald
Entry updated 30 March 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1930-2013) Scottish author of fiction and considerable popular science, some in collaboration with Archie Roy under the joint pseudonym Roy Malcolm (whom see for details); also active in UK Fandom. He began publishing sf with "Defence Mechanism" in New Worlds for November 1957. Two series of stories, the Matthew Brady/Preliminary Exploration Team tales in New Worlds 1957-1964 and the Dream Background tales in New Worlds in 1959 and subsequently in the continuing Original Anthology series New Writings in SF 1965-1975, did not reach book form. His two sf novels for Laser Books, both routine, are The Unknown Shore (1976), dealing with tensions amid a large mixed crew on a damaged Spaceship lost in intergalactic space, and The Iron Rain (1976), whose titular Disaster is a massive and destructive fall of meteors. [JC/DRL]
see also: Stars.
Donald Malcolm
born Scotland: 28 September 1930
died Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland: 9 November 2013
works
- The Unknown Shore (Toronto, Ontario: Laser Books, 1976) [pb/Kelly Freas]
- The Iron Rain (Toronto, Ontario: Laser Books, 1976) [pb/Kelly Freas]
nonfiction
- The Paisley Rocketeers (Glasgow, Scotland: Stenlake Publishing, 1997) [nonfiction: describes the Paisley Rocketeers Society: pb/]
about the author
- Brian W Aldiss, "British Science Fiction Now: Studies of Three Writers" (Winter 1965 SF Horizons) [pp22-26: mag/]
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