Stannard, Russell
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1931- ) UK physicist and author, much of whose nonfiction attempts to reconcile modern science and Religion. He is of sf interest for the Uncle Albert series of didactic tales for relatively young readers beginning with The Time and Space of Uncle Albert (1989). The structure of the sequence – children present Uncle Albert with questions, which he answers through guided tours of the physical universe – resembles George Gamow's Mr Tompkins books, which Stannard updated as The New World of Mr Tompkins (coll 2001). His individual tales inhabit the same pedagogical territory. [JC]
Russell Stannard
born London: 24 December 1931
works
series
Uncle Albert
- The Time and Space of Uncle Albert (London: Faber and Faber, 1989) [Uncle Albert: pb/John Levers]
- Black Holes and Uncle Albert (London: Faber and Faber, 1991) [Uncle Albert: hb/John Levers]
- Uncle Albert and the Quantum Quest (London: Faber and Faber, 1995) [Uncle Albert: pb/John Levers]
individual titles
- Here I Am! (London: Faber and Faber, 1992) [hb/]
- www.Here-I-Am (no place given: Topeka Bindery, 2002) [vt of the above: hb/]
- World of 1001 Mysteries (London: Faber and Faber, 1993) [hb/Chris Priestley]
- The New World of Mr Tompkins (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 2001) with George Gamow [coll: updating by Stannard of original tales: Mr Tompkins: hb/]
- Virtutopia (London: Faber and Faber, 2002) [pb/Sam Hadley]
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