PEREIRA, W(ilfred) D(ennis)

(1921-)

   UK aviation engineer, advertising executive and writer whose first books, from Time of Departure (1956), concentrated on flying. He began writing sf with Aftermath 15 (1973), which depicts a DYSTOPIAN post- HOLOCAUST USA whose inhabitants are rigidly stratified according to howmuch radiation they have absorbed. The projected sequels, Aftermath 16 and Aftermath 17, have never appeared. WDP's other novels, all written forROBERT HALE LIMITED in a professionally impersonal style, have been The Charon Tapes (1975), Another Eden (1986), Contact (1977), The King of Hell (1978) and Celeste (1979).

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