Seymour, Alan [2]
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1927-2015) Australian playwright, broadcaster and author, resident in the UK and elsewhere between 1961 and 1995. His sf novel, The Coming Self-Destruction of the United States of America (1969) – presented as a series of manuscripts found ages hence in the ruins of America (see Ruins and Futurity) and delivered back through time for contemporary readers – features a Black revolution that, though temporarily successful, precipitates an atomic Disaster. [JC]
Alan Seymour
born Fremantle, Western Australia: 6 June 1927
died Sydney, New South Wales: 23 March 2015
works
- The Coming Self-Destruction of the United States of America (London: Souvenir Press, 1969) [hb/S R Boldero]
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