(1923-    ) UK writer. His sf series featuring Matthew Dilke – Cold War in a Country Garden (1971), Killer Pine (1973) and Fratricide is a Gas (1975) – calls upon themes from espionage to Ecology to buttress far-fetched tales of a government agent Miniaturized with some companions (> Great and Small) to test the chances of counteracting Overpopulation by resettling the world – the last volume is set in the jungles of Peru – with a miniaturized mankind having a typical height of one-quarter of an inch (6mm). [JC/DRL]

Thomas Gordon Lindsay Gutteridge

born Easington, Durham: 20 May 1923

died

works

series

Matthew Dilke

• Cold War in a Country Garden (London: Jonathan Cape, 1971) [Matthew Dilke: hb/Bill Botten]
• Killer Pine (London: Jonathan Cape, 1973) [Matthew Dilke: hb/Bill Botten]
• Fratricide is a Gas (London: Jonathan Cape, 1975) [Matthew Dilke: hb/Bill Botten]

links

Previous versions of this entry

• 01/01/2005
• 20/12/2011