Sanders, Scott Russell
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1945- ) US teacher and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Touch the Earth" for Edges (anth 1980) edited by Ursula K Le Guin; most of his work has been nonfiction, much of comprising nature studies set in America. His first novel, Terrarium (1985), is set in a Near Future America whose human population has retreated from the polluted world into domed Cities (see Keep); the tale neatly expresses some late-twentieth-century guilts and their redemption, for the few humans who leave the domes find a rejuvenated Nature outdoors (see Ecology). The Engineer of Beasts (1988), a Young Adult tale, is concerned with Genetic Engineering. The Invisible Company (1989) examines the cost of maintaining a colony of immortals (see Immortality) in a place called Paradise Island, to which the protagonist is ominously called. [JC]
Scott Russell Sanders
born Memphis, Tennessee: 26 October 1945
works (highly selected)
- Fetching the Dead: Stories (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1984) [coll: hb/]
- Terrarium (New York: Tor, 1985) [pb/Angus McKie]
- Bad Man Ballad (New York: Bradbury Press, 1986) [hb/]
- The Engineer of Beasts (New York: Orchard Books, 1988) [hb/Ponder Goembel]
- The Invisible Company (New York: Tor, 1989) [pb/]
- Dancing in Dreamtime (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2017) [coll: pb/]
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