Spencer, Colin
Entry updated 20 October 2025. Tagged: Artist, Author.
(1933-2023) UK broadcaster, painter and author, active in the latter capacity from 1955, his short stories and novels almost never edging into the fantastic. Of sf interest is Asylum (1966), a Satire set in very Near Future Britain seen in Absurdist SF terms as exactly an asylum, one in which – in a manner similar to the Theatre of the Absurd – extravagant behaviours are staged, and theatricals ritually enacted, including a tri-annual Wild Hunt [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. [JC]
Colin Spencer
born London: 17 July 1933
died East Sussex: 6 July 2023
works (highly selected)
- Asylum (London: Anthony Blond, 1966) [hb/Colin Spencer]
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