Powe, Bruce
Entry updated 14 April 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1925-2018) Canadian author whose sf novels concentrate on political disorders, a theme very common to post-World War Two writers from his country. Killing Ground: The Canadian Civil War (1968) as by Ellis Portal sets its fatal conflict in Near Future Canada, where separatist unrest leads to Quebec's independence and an American Invasion of Canada, which is repelled. The Last Days of the American Empire (1974) more far-rangingly places its conflicts in the twenty-first century, when a North American hegemony is threatened by Invasions from both Europe and starving Africa. [JC]
Bruce Powe
born Edmonton, Alberta: 9 June 1925
died Toronto, Ontario: 16 November 2018
works
- Killing Ground: The Canadian Civil War (Toronto, Ontario: Peter Martin Associates, 1968) as by Ellis Portal [pb/]
- The Last Days of the American Empire (Toronto, Ontario: Macmillan of Canada, 1974) [hb/]
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