Wood, William
Entry updated 16 January 2023. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) UK author whose sf novel The News from Karachi (1962) posits a Near Future world afflicted by a rolling succession of plagues, perhaps triggered by uncontrolled testing of nuclear weapons (see Nuclear Energy; World War Three). Mutant fauna have been to proliferate. The Prime Minister of a pan-European state commits symbolic Suicide by plunging into a mushroom cloud. The tale ends without offering any excessive solace. [JC]
William Parker Wood, Jr
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- The News from Karachi (London: Victor Gollancz, 1962) [hb/nonpictorial]
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