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Saunders, G K

(1910-2005) UK-born radio scriptwriter and author, in New Zealand briefly then in Australia from 1939, writing and producing there a series of sf radio stories beginning with The Moon Flower (1953). His sf novel, The Stranger (1978), based on one of these productions, The Stranger (1964-1965), is a Young Adult tale in which human children give aid to an Alien who is on earth in search of a new homeland. [JC]

George Kenneth Saunders

born 1910

died 2005

works

• The Stranger (Sydney, New South Wales: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1978) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 20:07 pm on 14 March 2026.
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