Mark Adlard
Mark Adlard (actually Peter Marcus Adlard ; born June 19, 1932 in Seaton Carew , Hartlepool , County Durham , England) is a British science fiction writer.
His most famous work is the in the novels interface , Volte Face and Multiface existing Tcity trilogy. From another announced trilogy, only the first volume The Greenlander appeared . In addition, Adlard published several short stories, essays and reviews.
Adlard studied economics and arts at Cambridge University and then worked as a manager in the steel industry for twenty years. In the 1970s he published the Tcity trilogy, which is located in the industrial metropolitan area of northern England in the near future. There a new material “Stahlex” has replaced all conventional materials and is being manufactured in a gigantic factory. The ironically tinged dystopia describes a world characterized by state control and the compulsion to conform, in which the protagonists have to struggle with the problems caused by automation and its social consequences, technologies that are getting out of hand, and technocracy and state surveillance that do not know any barriers.
bibliography
- Tcity trilogy
- Interface (1971)
- Volteface (1972)
- Multiface (1975)
- Single novel
- The Greenlander (1978)
- Short stories
- Friction Free (in: The Evening News, October 28, 1968 )
- Ash Shadow (in: Balthus, # 2, Sept. 1971 )
- Theophilus (1973, in: Christopher Carrell (Ed.): Beyond This Horizon )
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 8.
- Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 157 f.
- Peter Nicholls : Adlard, Mark. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated August 10, 2018.
- 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. 791.
- Michael J. Tolley: Adlard, Mark (Peter Marcus Adlard) . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 2 f.
Web links
- Mark Adlard in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Mark Adlard at Open Library
- Mark Adlard in Fantastic Fiction (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adlard, Mark |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adlard, Peter Marcus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British science fiction writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seaton Carew , Hartlepool , County Durham , England |