DUKE, Madelaine (Elizabeth)
- DUKE, Madelaine (Elizabeth)
(1925-)
UK writer and physician, born in Switzerland of Dutch parents, active under her own name and at least two pseudonyms in a variety of genres including sf novels (which she describes as "cartoons"). Claret, Sandwiches and Sin: A Cartoon (1964 as by Maxim Donne; 1966 as by MED) depicts a world insecurely amalgamated, after a nuclear conflict, into two political divisions: Africa and the Rest of the World. Any politician who risks war is eliminated by an underground organization. The protagonist of the sequel, This Business of Bomfog: A Cartoon (1967), is "Maxim Donne" - author of Claret, Sandwiches and Sin, a successful novel that has inspired the assassination of a number of world leaders. In 1989, Bomfog (Brotherhood-of-Man-Fatherhood-of-God), the organization responsible, now runs the UK in a fashion MED depicts in somewhat hectic language as DYSTOPIAN. Flashpoint (1982) features a scientist who plans to use a new nuclear power system to enforce global sanity.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
Academic.
2011.
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