Hugh Darrington
Hugh Darrington (born September 30, 1940 in Bishop's Stortford , Hertfordshire ) is a British science fiction writer.
Life
Darrington is the son of the headmaster Richard Darrington and Vera Darrington, nee De Wilde. He married Ann Gordon in 1962, with whom he has a son. He has worked as a reporter and editor for various household and market magazines and since 1970 as an editor for several specialist magazines in the fields of food technology and brewing , namely Brewers' Guardian , Food Manufacture and International Food Ingredients . He is also the author of several specialist books in these areas.
In the 1970s he published two science fiction novels that were also translated into German.
bibliography
- Novels
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The God Killers (1970; with Tony Halliwell as James Ross)
- German: In the name of humanity. Translated by Wulf H. Bergner . Goldmann's Space Paperback # 0151, 1972, ISBN 3-442-23151-5 .
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Gravitor (1971)
- English: Satellite on the wrong path. Translated by Norbert Wölfl. Goldmann Science Fiction # 0150, 1974, ISBN 3-442-23150-7 .
- Non-fiction
- Brewery manual (1972)
- Food manufacture ingredient and machinery survey (1984)
- Additives in the food industry (1987)
- Irradiated foods: a Food Manufacture special report (1988)
- Strawberries to the moon (autobiography, e-book, 2011)
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 114.
- Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 361.
- John Clute : Darrington, Hugh. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
- Robert Reginald : Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. A Checklist, 1700–1974 with contemporary science fiction authors II. Gale, Detroit 1979, ISBN 0-8103-1051-1 , p. 872.
Web links
- Hugh Darrington in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Hugh Darrington in the Bibliography of German Science Fiction ( Books )
- Works by and about Hugh Darrington at Open Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ For the publication history of Goldmann Science Fiction # 0150 see The History of Volume 150 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Darrington, Hugh |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ross, James (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British science fiction writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bishop's Stortford , Hertfordshire |