KELLOGG, Marjorie Bradley

(1946-)

   US scenery designer and writer who published her first three novels as by M. Bradley Kellogg to avoid confusion with another Marjorie Kellogg, but from 1991 used her full name. Her first novel, A Rumor ofAngels (1983), is unexceptional, but the Lear's Daughters sequence - The Wave and the Flame (1986) and Reign of Fire (1986), both written with NASA climatologist William B(rigance) Rossow (1947) and assembled as Lear's Daughters (omni 1987) - somewhat more interestingly devotes much attentionto the ECOLOGY and violent climatic extremes of a potential colony planet, though the conflict between the advocates of exploitation and those of alliance with the pacific cave-dwelling weather-predicting natives lacks originality. MBK's fourth novel, Harmony (1991), is a large and ambitious tale set on an Earth dominated by centuries of POLLUTION, with almost all humans now living in large, strictly controlled domes. But some artists - here MBK again shows an untoward softness of mind - have somehow managed to live in the open, and the book moves slowly towards a wholesome resolution of the conflict between ensuring safety and embracing the world.

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