ARDREY, Robert

ARDREY, Robert
(1908-1980)
   US playwright, novelist and speculative journalist known mainly for his work outside the sf field, formerly for such plays as Thunder Rock (performed 1939;1941), which was filmed (1942) by the Boulting Brothers, latterly for his series of sociobiological speculations, beginning with African Genesis (1961), commercially the most successful. As the implications of his biological determinism have sunk in on advocates of FEMINISM and others, he has seemed increasingly isolated as an ethological popularizer. The uncomfortable nature of his speculative attempts may be found in his sf novel, World's Beginning (1944), where US society is benevolently rationalized by a chemicals company.
   See also: ECONOMICS; METAPHYSICS.

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