BELDEN, David (Corderoy)

(1949-)

   Swiss-born UK writer, in the USA from 1982, whose Galactic Collectivity sequence - Children of Arable (1986) and To Warm the Earth (1988) - depicts with clearly felt didactic urgency a FAR-FUTURE Earth trapped in sterile stasis, with a stagnant galactic civilization impotently observing the dying of the mother planet. In the first volume a woman gives birth to a child, and this has a rejuvenating effect (the novel is rich in feminist and religious discourse); in the second novel of the sequence, another female protagonist looks to a Collectivity satellite for a dubious technological fix.

   JC