Thompson, Caroline

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1956-    ) US screenwriter and author; she wrote at least three scripts for Fantasy films by Tim Burton (not given entries here), and for City of Ember (2008) directed by Gil Kenan. Of sf interest is First Born (1983), in which an aborted foetus either returns to life, or is the survivor of a Mad Scientist experiment on the part of the abortionist (see Horror in SF). [JC]

Caroline Thompson

born Washington, District of Columbia: 23 April 1956

works

• First Born (New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1983) [hb/Honi Werner]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

previous versions of this entry

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