WILSON, Sir Angus (Frank Johnstone)
- WILSON, Sir Angus (Frank Johnstone)
(1913-1991)
UK writer best known for Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) and other novels sharply anatomical of modern life. His one sf novel, The Old Men at the Zoo (1961), applies MAINSTREAM techniques to a 1970sNEAR FUTURE vision of the UK threatened internally by loss of nerve and by neofascism, and externally by a federated Europe. AW was an early supporter of the hardcover PUBLISHING of GENRE SF in the UK, and edited the book of the best stories entered for the Observer sf prize in 1954, A. D. 2500 (anth 1955). The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling (1977),nonfiction, analyses KIPLING in terms which elucidate the haunting power of that author's genre work. AW was knighted in 1980.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
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2011.
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Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson — noun English writer of novels and short stories (1913 1991) • Syn: ↑Wilson, ↑Sir Angus Wilson • Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author … Useful english dictionary
Sir Angus Wilson — noun English writer of novels and short stories (1913 1991) • Syn: ↑Wilson, ↑Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson • Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author … Useful english dictionary
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Wilson — /wil seuhn/, n. 1. Sir Angus (Frank Johnstone) /jon steuhn, seuhn/, 1913 91, English writer. 2. August, born 1945, U.S. playwright. 3. Charles Thomson Rees /tom seuhn rees/, 1869 1959, Scottish physicist: Nobel prize 1927. 4. Edmund, 1895 1972, U … Universalium
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Wilson — noun 1. Scottish ornithologist in the United States (1766 1813) • Syn: ↑Alexander Wilson • Instance Hypernyms: ↑ornithologist, ↑bird watcher 2. English writer of novels and short stories (1913 1991) • Syn: ↑Sir Angus … Useful english dictionary
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