LEE, Gentry (B.)

LEE, Gentry (B.)
(1942-)
   US writer who held several important posts in NASA's deep-space exploration programme and was a screenwriter for Carl SAGAN's Cosmos tv series. His sf has been written exclusively in collaboration with Arthur C. CLARKE (whom see for details); at least initially, the senior partnerprovided outlines based on ideas generated by both writers, and then the books themselves were written by GL. Cradle (1988), the first and weakest, is a First-Contact drama exhibiting little of Clarke's economy or intensity. Following on from Clarke's solo RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA (1973), the Rama sequence - Rama II (1989 UK),The Garden of Rama (1991) and Rama Revealed (1993) - shows a continual improvement. GL has proved competentat conveying technical information, though tending to lapse into an "airport novel" approach when it comes to dealing with human beings.
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