MacKELWORTH, R(onald) W(alter)

(1930-)

   UK writer and insurance salesman who began publishing sf with "The Statue" for NW in 1963 and produced some above-average sf adventure novels, usually involving complex, sometimes jumbled plotting, and an Earth somehow in danger. They include Firemantle (1968; vt The Diabols1969 US), Tiltangle (1970 US), Starflight 3000 (1972 US) - which involves some interesting TERRAFORMING of both the Moon and other planets - The Year of the Painted World (1975) and Shakehole (1981), a DYSTOPIAN visionof a NEAR FUTURE UK.

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