BROCKWAY, (Archibald) Fenner
- BROCKWAY, (Archibald) Fenner
(1888-1988)
UK writer long active in socialist politics - he was made a life peer in 1964 - and long respected for his humane views. His sf novel Purple Plague: A Tale of Love and Revolution (1935) uses a liner stranded at sea by a mysterious plague as a venue for egalitarian reversals of the status quo.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
Academic.
2011.
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