WELLS, Angus

(1943-)

   UK writer, previously a paperbacks editor. Most of his novels have been Westerns as by Charles L. Pike, James A. Muir and other names. As Ian Evans, he wrote Starmaidens * (1977), an sf tv tie. Under the housename Richard Kirk, which he shared with Robert P. HOLDSTOCK, he contributed to the Raven fantasy series Swordsmistress of Chaos (1978) with Holdstock and, solo, The Frozen Gods (1978) and A Time of Dying (1979). As AW he has written the Book of the Kingdoms fantasy sequence -Wrath of Ashar (1988), The Usurper (1989) and The Way Beneath (1989) - and begun a second sequence, the Godwars books, with Forbidden Magic (1991) and Dark Magic (1992). Lords of the Sky (1994) is also fantasy. In 1973-5 AW ed a series of collections assembling for UK readers the "best of"various sf authors, including The Best of Isaac Asimov (anth in 2 vols 1973), The Best of Arthur C. Clarke (anth in 2 vols 1973), The Best ofRobert A. Heinlein (anth in 2 vols 1973), The Best of John Wyndham (anth 1973), THE BEST OF FRITZ LEIBER (anth 1974), The Best of A.E. van Vogt (anth 1974), The Best of Frank Herbert (anth 1975) and The Best of Clifford D. Simak (anth 1975).

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