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Pottinger, Stanley

(1940-2024) US lawyer, banker and author of two sf novels, each involving advances in Medicine: The Fourth Procedure (1995), in which foetal transplants have become possible, igniting a religious debate in America; and A Slow Burning (1999), set in the very Near Future where a brilliant neurosurgeon, using Nanotechnology, is able to repair damaged brains: the complicated plot involves the memory transfer of portions of the now-dead surgeon's knowledge (see Identity Transfer; Memory Edit). [JC]

John Stanley Pottinger

born Dayton, Ohio: 13 February 1940

died Princeton, New Jersey: 24 November 2024

works

• The Fourth Procedure (New York: Ballantine Books, 1995) [hb/Michael Backus]
• A Slow Burning (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999) [hb/David Rudkin and Clifford Webb]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 02:45 am on 12 May 2026.
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