LUNAN, Duncan (Alasdair)

(1945-)

   Scottish writer, generally of nonfiction books and articles in popular science, with a concentration on space exploration and related topics; titles include Man and the Stars (1974), New Worlds for Old (1979) and Man and the Planets (1983). The first of these presented and supported the hypothesis that historical radio anomalies might best be accounted for in terms of a ROBOT probe from an ALIEN culture parked at one of the Earth-Moon system's LAGRANGE POINTS; the anomalies have now been otherwiseexplained, but DL's exposition of his case, based on sound science rather than PSEUDO-SCIENCE, does not lack integrity. As an sf writer, DL began publishing stories with "Renaissance" for the Glasgow University Magazine in 1964, although his first fully professional sale, "The Moon of Thin Reality", did not appear until 1970 (in Gal). In Starfield: ScienceFiction by Scottish Writers (anth 1989) DL demonstrated some of the range of sf currently being written in his home country.

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