GROVES, J(ohn) W(illiam)

(1910-)

   UK writer, variously employed, who began publishing sf with "The Sphere of Death" for AMZ in 1931, but whose career consisted mainly of desultory magazine publications until his first novel for ROBERT HALE LIMITED, Shellbreak (1968), in which a man awakens in AD2505 armed withknowledge that helps him to topple a corrupt dictatorship. The Heels of Achilles (1969) presents a world in which the dead have come mysteriouslyto life.

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