STRICKLAND, Brad

   Working name of US writer William Bradley Strickland (1947-), who has concentrated mainly on fantasy, most notably perhaps in early stories like "The Herders of Grimm" for FSF in 1984 and in the Jeremy Moon sequence -Moon Dreams (1988), Nul's Quest (1989) and Wizard's Mole (1991) - which conveys its protagonist into a wittily constructed dream world, where he takes his stand. BS's first novel, To Stand beneath the Sun (1986), is an sf adventure whose protagonist must come to terms with a world dominated by women. Ark Liberty (1992) as by Will Bradley treats the ecocatastrophic (ECOLOGY) near-death of Earth with melodramatic panache, pitting itsscientist hero against suicidal governments and embedding him - after his physical death - into the eponymous undersea biome as its computer mentor and spirit, while centuries pass.

   JC

   Other works: ShadowShow (1988); Children of the Knife (1990), medical horror; Dragon's Plunder (1992); Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Star Ghost * (1994) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Stowaways * (1994).