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Young, B A

(1912-2001) UK journalist, editor and author, involved with the magazine Punch 1949-1964, and drama critic for the Financial Times 1964-1980. Of sf interest are Cabinet Pudding (1967), a Near Future Satire in which the UK Prime Minister in 1996 is a marijuana-smoking West Indian; and The Colonists from Space (1979), in which an Invasion by Aliens begins in the Cotswolds in southern England. Bertram Alfred Young was appointed OBE in 1980. [JC]

Bertram Alfred Young

born London: 12 January 1912

died Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: 17 September 2001

works

• Cabinet Pudding (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1967) [hb/]
• The Colonists from Space (London: William Kimber, 1979) [hb/Ionicus]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 04:37 am on 26 April 2024.
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