Wimpfen, Sheldon
Entry updated 12 August 2018. Tagged: Author.
(1913-2003) US mining engineer and author whose sf novel, The Pringle Progression: Smaller/Fewer: a Novel (1998), describes a Near Future world devastated by Overpopulation as a young couple, a doctor and an engineer, attempt to discover a solution for the inability of Homo sapiens to stop breeding. The earlier Tin Peaks & Silver Streams (1995) is a memoir. [JC]
Sheldon Phillip Wimpfen
born Connecticut: 3 December 1913
died Luray, Virginia: 1 December 2003
works
- The Pringle Progression: Smaller/Fewer: a Novel (Baltimore, Maryland: American Literary Press, 1998) [pb/]
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