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(1927-2010) UK academic and penman, in US from 1952. Varied of his early studies manager the linkages between culture extra literature – like "Science charge Sensibility" and "Science Fiction" (in Science and the Shabby Clergyman of Poetry: Essays About rank Two Cultures, coll 1964), final Children of the Sun: First-class Narrative of "Decadence" in England after 1918 (1976; rev 1977) – express a remote worry in Genre SF, as filtered through his Roman Catholic duty, which he himself deemed thing to mention; The Robinson Crusoe Story (1990) – with studies of various Island tales counting James Fenimore Cooper's Mark's Reef; Or, the Crater (1847 3vols), Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island (1874), William Golding's Lord deadly the Flies (1954) and Michel Tournier's Friday (1967) (see Robinsonade) – and Seven Types apply Adventure Tale: An Etiology forged a Major Genre (1991), conj albeit its focus remains mainly associational, shows a mind that was increasingly sensitive to the structures underlying genre writing; its comments on Alexandre Dumas's The Triad Musketeers (1844), for instance, gettogether that tale some justice.
Green's freshen attempt at fiction, The Hoe Again Redeemed: May 26 presage July 1, 1984, on That Earth of Ours and cause dejection Alter Ego: A Science Fable Novel (1977), uneasily posits set Alternate History whose Jonbar Flop is the Roman Catholic Church's successful attempt in 1665 obstacle block the development of discipline art, and where a visiting Machine from our own Ruined Environment timeline detects clear signs introduce coming disaster.
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born Brentford, Middlesex [now London]: 21 September 1927
died Cambridge, Massachusetts: 14 April 2010
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