PLAUGER, P(hillip) J(ames)

(1944-)

   US writer and physicist, involved professionally in computers. He began publishing sf with "Epicycle" for ASF in 1973, being best known for "Child of All Ages" (1975), about an immortal woman (IMMORTALITY) who perpetually retains the body of a child; he won the JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD for Best New Author in 1975. The novel-length "Fighting Madness" (in Ben BOVA's Analog Annual, anth 1976) remains unpublished in book form.

   JC/PN