WELDON, Fay

WELDON, Fay
(1931-)
   UK writer. Almost all of her work has - with passion, anger and a highly charged creative ambiguity - dealt with issues and situations generally conceived of as FEMINIST. Much of her later fiction verges on the supernatural or edges into the future, or both. In Puffball (1980) a pregnant woman is influenced by Glastonbury Tor. In The Rules of Life (1987 chap), set in AD2004, a dead woman communicates her memoirs througha computer console. In The Cloning of Joanna May (1989) a man has his wife "cloned" ("not cloning in the modern sense, but parthenogenesis plusimplantation", the book explains) so that he can enjoy various younger versions of her. The novel was dramatized as a tv miniseries, The CLONING OF JOANNA MAY (1991).
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   Other works: Female Friends (1975); Watching Me, Watching You (coll 1979); Wolf the Mechanical Dog (1988 chap), an uneasy sf fable for children.
   See also: CLONES; WOMEN SF WRITERS.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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