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Mackelworth, R W

(1930-2000) UK author and insurance salesman who began publishing sf with "The Statue" for New Worlds in January 1963 and produced some above-average sf adventure novels, usually involving complex but rarely jumbled plotting, and an Earth somehow in danger. They include Firemantle (1968; vt The Diabols 1969), Tiltangle (1970), in which melodramatic Climate Change has confined humanity to a single Keep, Starflight 3000 (1972) – which involves some interesting Terraforming of both the Moon and subsequently, via Generation Starship, of other planets – The Year of the Painted World (1975), in which Earth is invaded by Martians (see Invasion; Mars), and Shakehole (1981), a Dystopian vision of a Near-Future UK. [JC]

Ronald Walter Mackelworth

born London: 7 April 1930

died Farnham, Surrey: 15 January 2000

works

• Firemantle (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1968) [hb/Barbara Walton]
  • The Diabols (New York: Paperback Library, 1969) [vt of the above: pb/Richard Powers]
• Tiltangle (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970) [pb/John Berkey]
• Starflight 3000 (New York: Ballantine Books, 1972) [pb/Christopher Foss]
• The Year of the Painted World (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1975) [hb/]
• Shakehole (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1981) [hb/Dave Griffiths]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 09:37 am on 20 April 2024.
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