CHARBONNEAU, Louis (Henry)

(1924-)

   US writer and journalist who, after writing some radio plays at the end of the 1940s, took an MA at the University of Detroit and taught there for some years before beginning to publish sf novels with No Place on Earth (1958), about a coercive DYSTOPIA. He produced sf for several years thereafter, publishing: Corpus Earthling (1960), about invading telepathic Martian parasites who eventually pass on their ESP powers to mankind; The Sentinel Stars (1963), another dystopia, this time about doomed revolts in a regimented future; Psychedelic-40 (1965; vt The Specials 1965 UK); and Antic Earth (1967 UK; vt Down to Earth 1967 US).In all these novels LC tends towards claustrophobic situations in which his rather conventional protagonists explore themselves through action scenarios. LC has written novels in other genres, including Westerns (as Carter Travis Young) and mysteries.

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   Other works: The Sensitives * (1968), from the filmscript by Deane ROMANO; Barrier World (1970); Embryo * (1976), novelizing EMBRYO (1976); Intruder (1979), marginal sf.