Rollo, William
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) UK author of The Big Wheel (1984), a Near Future Technothriller set in near space, where the Big Wheel Space Station is a US strategic command centre in geosynchronous orbit, rivalled by the USSR's Astrogorodok on the far side of Earth. Escalating ecological Disaster (driven chiefly by Climate Change) on the mother planet leads to armed strife in space, and on the Moon, to decide the future for the remnants of humanity. [JC/DRL]
William Rollo
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works
- The Olympus Gambit (London: New English Library, 1983) [pb/Terry Hadler]
- The Big Wheel (London: New English Library, 1984) [pb/Gerry Grace]
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