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Alexander, Patrick

(1926-1997) UK author of crime novels; of these Show Me a Hero (1979) – a Near Future thriller set in a Dystopian UK governed (as was common in 1970s novels of this description) by a left-wing dictatorship – is of some sf interest. [JC]

Patrick James Alexander

born 1926

died 1997

works

• Show Me a Hero (London: Macmillan, 1979) [hb/]

about the author

• George Locke. A Spectrum of Fantasy: Volume III: Acquisitions to a Collection of Fantastic Literature, 1994-2001: Together with Additional Notes ... (London: Privately Printed, 2002) [nonfiction: p10: hb/nonpictorial]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 01:48 am on 25 April 2024.
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