Muller, Robert
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1925-1998) German author, playwright and screenwriter, in the UK from 1938. His sf novel is The Lost Diaries of Albert Smith (1965; vt After All, This Is England 1967), a Near Future Dystopia in which the consequences of a fascist takeover of Britain are examined. Also in the 1960s he adapted two stories by Isaac Asimov and one by Clifford D Simak for the BBC Television Anthology Series Out of the Unknown (1965-1971) and scripted a 1968 version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus (1818; rev 1831) for the series Mystery and Imagination. [JC]
Robert Muller
born Hamburg, Germany: 1 September 1925
died London: 27 May 1998
works
- The Lost Diaries of Albert Smith (London: Jonathan Cape, 1965) [hb/]
- After All, This Is England (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1967) [vt of the above: pb/]
works as editor
- Supernatural: Haunting Stories of Gothic Terror (London: Severn House, 1977) [anth: adaptations from BBC Television scripts: hb/]
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