FITZGIBBON, (Robert Louis) Constantine (Lee-Dillon)

(1919-1983)

   US writer of politically oriented fiction and other works who became a naturalized Irish citizen. His first sf novel, The Iron Hoop (1949), describes an occupied city in WWIII. When the Kissing Had to Stop(1960) depicts in Anglophobe terms the self-destruction of a UK dominated by a Communist-inspired government. Less known but more remarkable, The Golden Age (1975) treats the post- HOLOCAUST recuperation of the UK interms of the myth of Orpheus.

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   Other works: The Rat Report (1980).