PECK, Richard E(arl)

(1936-)

   US writer and academic, professor of English at Temple University, Philadelphia, and an active critic of both literature in general and sf in particular. He began publishing sf with "In Alien Waters" for Venture in 1969. His sf novel, Final Solution (1973), is anamusing but grim tale in which a US academic is sent 50 years into the future (through CRYONICS) to find universities and CITIES merged into a hideous conglomerate and sealed off, with Middle America living comfortably outside.REP is not to be confused with Richard (Wayne) Peck (1934-), author of the Blossom Culp series of children's fantasies.

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