(1931-    ) Scottish author, mostly of historical novels and thrillers; of sf interest is his first novel, The Lion Is Rampant (1979), a Dystopian political thriller set in the impoverished Near Future Scotland of the 1980s, when the Scottish Freedom Party attempts to wrest power from the morally and political bankrupt south. [JC]

Ross Laidlaw

born Aberdeen, Scotland: 5 May 1931

died

works

• The Lion Is Rampant (Glasgow, Scotland: The Molendinar Press, 1979) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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