DUNCAN, Ronald (Frederick Henry)
- DUNCAN, Ronald (Frederick Henry)
(1914-1982)
UK novelist, poet and playwright; Benjamin Britten's librettist for the opera The Rape of Lucretia (1946). He was generally best known for works outside the sf field. The Dull Ass's Hoof (coll 1941) contains some fantasy plays. Some of the stories in The Perfect Mistress and Other Stories (coll 1969), A Kettle of Fish (coll 1971), The Tale of Tails (coll 1975) and The Uninvited Guest (coll 1981) are fables with sf components. RD's sf novella, The Last Adam (1952 chap), features a last man who, being something of a misogynist, comes across the last woman and leaves her.
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Other works: This Way to the Tomb (1946) and The Death of Satan (1955), fantasy plays; Mr and Mrs Mouse (1977), a fairy tale.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
Academic.
2011.
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