Passes, Alan
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of UK screenwriter, translator, film technician and author Alan Pazolski (1943- ), who has signed himself Alan Passes-Pazolski since 1978. His first sf story was "Spoor" for New Worlds in June 1969, and he has written two sf plays, "Mystic of the Western World", produced 1976, and "Death Raise", produced 1977. Film-work includes co-author credits for The Pianotuner of Earthquakes (2005), about a doctor attempting to transform a singer into a mechanical entity (see Arts; Cyborgs). His epic novel Big Step (1977) mixes sf material with Mythology in the experimentally couched story of the adventures on Earth of an interstellar Angel of Death who seeks to punish a fugitive Nazi. [JC]
Alan Pazolski
born London: 12 January 1943
works
- Big Step (London: Allison and Busby, 1977) [hb/]
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