GREEN, Martin (Burgess)

(1927-)

   UK academic and writer, long resident in the USA. Some of his early studies of the linkages between culture and literature, like "Science and Sensibility" (in Science and the Shabby Curate of Poetry coll1964) and Children of the Sun (1976), express a remote interest in GENRE SF; later works, like The Robinson Crusoe Story (1990) and Seven Types of Adventure Tale: An Etiology of a Major Genre (1991), though their interest remains mainly associational, show a mind increasingly sensitive to the structures underlying genre writing. His one attempt at fiction, The Earth Again Redeemed: May 26 to July 1, 1984, on This Earth of Ours and itsAlter Ego: A Science Fiction Novel (1977), uneasily posits an ALTERNATE WORLD where the Roman Catholic Church has blocked the development of science, and where a visiting CYBORG from our own ruined timeline detects clear signs of coming disaster.

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   See also: ANTIMATTER.