Perkins, Penny

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1962-    ) US author of Bob Bridges: An Apocalyptic Fable (1999), scattily Equipoisal between sf and Beast Fable [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below], whose Computer programmer eponym has been predicting nuclear Holocaust, a vision confirmed by a cockroach from the Far Future, long after the Ruined Earth has been healed by cockroaches. The telling of the tale competently evokes authors as dissimilar as Donald Harrington (1935-2009), author of The Cockroaches of Stay More (1989), Kurt Vonnegut Jr and William Wharton, author of Franky Furbo (1989). [JC]

Penny Perkins

born Vandalia, Illinois: 1962

works

• Bob Bridges: An Apocalyptic Fable (Albany, New York: Chrome Deco Press, 1989) [pb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: Beast Fable
• Picture Gallery

previous versions of this entry

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