MORLAND, Dick

   Pseudonym used by UK writer and academic Reginald Hill (1936-) for his sf. Both of his sf novels as DM, Heart Clock (1973) and Albion! Albion! (1974), use DYSTOPIAN techniques to describe visions of repellent futureUKs. In the first, citizens are fitted with termination devices for the government to use according to actuarial needs; in the second, England has been literally taken over by soccer rowdies and is divided into competing clubs with the citizenry as violent supporters. Both books are heavy-handed but enjoyably sharp-tongued. Hill, who also writes detections under his own name and as Patrick Ruell and Charles Underhill, has published one sf novel under his own name, One Small Step: A Dalziel and Pascoe Novella (1990), a detection set on the Moon in AD2010.

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