Wykes, Alan
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1914-1993) Prolific UK author, mainly of nonfiction, whose sf Satire Happyland (1952) depicts an arcadian fantasy-Island in which happiness is literally obtainable. A UK magnate turns the place into a holiday camp; a new kind of bomb finally eliminates it. The nonfiction H G Wells in the Cinema (1977) surveys all the films up to publication date based on H G Wells's fiction. [JC]
Douglas Alan Wykes
born Carshalton, Surrey: 21 May 1914
died Reading, Berkshire: 11 June 1993
works
- Happyland (London: Gerald Duckworth, 1952) [hb/Lindley]
nonfiction
- H G Wells in the Cinema (London: Jupiter Books, 1977) [nonfiction: hb/]
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