SUDDABY, (William) Donald
- SUDDABY, (William) Donald
(1900-1964)
UK writer, mostly for children, who began publishing work of genre interest as Alan Griff with stories like "House of Desolation" for Cornhill in 1934; his first sf book, a novel for adults, was Lost Men inthe Grass (1940) (
GREAT AND SMALL) as by Griff. The third novella assembled in Masterless Swords: Variations on a Theme (coll of linked stories 1947) is set in a future where men wage war on women. DS soon became - and remained - best known for his juvenile sf novels, beginning with The Star Raiders (1950) and The Death of Metal (1952); the most notable is perhaps Village Fanfare, or The Man from the Future (1934 Cornhill as by Griff; much exp 1954), a TIME-TRAVEL tale in which a 1907Shropshire village is visited from the future by a man looking for, and finding, human wisdom in his past. Prisoners of Saturn (1957) is a
SPACE OPERA. Some of DS's non-sf books, like Tower of Babel (1962), have somefantasy content.
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Other work: Scarlet-Dragon: A Little Chinese Phantasy (1923 chap).
Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
Academic.
2011.
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