McCrum, Robert

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1953-    ) UK editor, long with the Observer, and author whose first novel, In the Secret State (1980), is a Near Future political thriller set in a UK threatened by an indirect Tory coup – control to be maintained through Computer manipulations of the body politic. [JC]

John Robert McCrum

born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: 7 July 1953

works

• In the Secret State (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

previous versions of this entry

• Internet Archive