Electronic Precinct - Nov 1997

Visiting Science fiction author

Colin Greenland, winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award and the British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel of 1990, recently gave a reading in the Sydney Jones Library to mark the presentation of his papers to the University's Science Fiction Collection.

Colin Greenland, who has been described as one of the dominant figures of his generation of SF writers, was writer in residence at the Science Fiction Foundation from 1980-1982. He has also been Reviews editor of Foundation. His critical study 'The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the UK "N ew Wave"' was published in 1983 and his first novel 'Daybreak On a Different Mountain' in 1984. His fourth novel, 'Take Back Plenty' (1990) is the only book to win both major British science fiction awards at once. His latest book is the collection 'The Plenty Principle' and a further novel about h is heroine Tabitha Jute, 'Mother of Plenty', will be published by HarperCollins in July 1988.