Bax, Martin
Entry updated 1 April 2024. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1933-2024) UK doctor of medicine, co-founder and long-time editor of the literary magazine Ambit, editor of medical texts, and author. In his sf novel, The Hospital Ship (1976), a narrative clearly evocative of the classical tale of the Narrenschiff or Ship of Fools, a group of experimental doctors sail the world's oceans after a Holocaust, applying triage techniques to the surreal world they find: curing those they can cure, stashing in the ship's mortuary those they definitely cannot, and applying a variety of techniques, many sexual, to the in-betweens. The imaginary Fantastic Voyages that shape the protagonist's liminal reveries in Love on the Borders (2006) hint at sojourns in Fantastika, but make no formal entrance. [JC]
Martin Charles Owen Bax
born 13 August 1933
died London: March 2024
works (selected)
- The Hospital Ship (London: Jonathan Cape, 1976) [hb/Michael Foreman]
- Love on the Borders (Bridgend, Wales: Seren, 2006) [pb/]
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