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Standiford, Les

(1945-    ) US historian, teacher and author, his best known fiction being the nonfantastic John Deal sequence set in Miami. He is of sf interest for Spill (1991), a Technothriller featuring the loss of a deadly new biological Weapon and the conspiracy between its corporate manufacturers and the American government to conceal a Disaster which may bring about the End of the World. [JC]

Lester Alan Standiford

born Cambridge, Ohio: 30 October 1945

works (highly selected)

• Spill (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991) [hb/Peter Thorpe]

links

• Les Standiford
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 04:50 am on 21 March 2023.
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