Richards, Joel

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

Pseudonym of US author Joel Richard Fruchtman (1937- ), who began publishing sf with "Speedplay" for Amazing in 1980 and has published subsequent stories in original anthologies. In his sf novel, Pindharee (1986), an officer in a human-dominated Galactic Empire must decide whether or not to disobey orders and fail to exterminate a peaceful Alien civilization. [JC]