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Baber, Asa

(1936-2003) US author, best-known for a column he wrote for Playboy from 1982 until his death of Lou Gehrig's Disease, which he described openly; his column, though rebarbative in some of its defensiveness about Men, argued cogently for male parental rights when parents are separated. A rogue General threatens a Near Future nuclear conflict in South East Asia in his first novel, The Land of a Million Elephants (February-April 1970 Playboy; exp 1970). [JC]

Asa Baber

born Chicago, Illinois: 19 June 1936

died Chicago, Illinois: 16 June 2003

works

• The Land of a Million Elephants (New York: William Morrow, 1970) [hb/]
• Tranquility Base & Other Stories (Los Angeles, California: Fiction International, 1979) [coll: pb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 05:12 am on 17 June 2026.
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