Name David Compton Role Author | Movies Death Watch | |
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Nominations Nebula Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best Novel Books The Unsleeping Eye, The Steel Crocodile, Farewell - Earth's Bliss, Chronocules, The Silent Multitude Similar People David Rayfiel, Bertrand Tavernier, Pierre‑William Glenn, Gilbert Morris, Geza von Radvanyi | ||
David G. Compton | Wikipedia audio article
David Guy Compton (born August 19, 1930) is a British author who writes science fiction under the name D. G. Compton. He used the name Guy Compton for his earlier crime novels and the pseudonym Frances Lynch for his Gothic novels. He has also written short stories, radio plays, and a non-fiction book on stammering, its causes and cures.
Compton was born in London. His first published book was the 1962 crime novel Too Many Murderers.His 1970 novel The Steel Crocodile was nominated for the Nebula Award, and his 1974 novel The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe was filmed as Death Watch by Bertrand Tavernier in 1979.
The 1983 film Brainstorm was very similar in content to Compton's 1968 novel Synthajoy.
In Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision, Robert Scholes and Eric S. Rabkin write:
Compton's work is informed by an acute and subtle moral sense which avoids the extremes of satire and sentiment while compelling us to see the world ethically...he succeeds superbly in preserving certain traditional fictional values and human values in works of genuine science fiction.
Compton was named the 2007 Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.