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Pen name
  
John Kippax

Name
  
John Kippax

Genre
  
Science fiction


Nationality
  
United Kingdom

Occupation
  
Author

Role
  
Fiction writer

John Kippax

Born
  
June 10, 1915Alwalton, Huntingdonshire, England (
1915-06-10
)

Died
  
July 17, 1974, Werrington, Peterborough, United Kingdom

Books
  
Seed of Stars, Where No Stars Guide, The Neutral Stars

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John Kippax was the pen name of English science fiction writer John Charles Hynam, author of many short stories and the Venturer Twelve series of space opera novels (most in collaboration with Dan Morgan).

Hynam was killed on the afternoon of 17 July 1974 when a lorry hit his car at Werrington, a few miles outside Peterborough. He left a wife, Phyl, and a daughter, Jennifer - who a week later gave birth to his first grandchild, a son, an event which he was awaiting with eager anticipation.

In the postscript to "Where No Stars Guide", published posthumously in 1975, Hynam's literary collaborator and close personal friend Dan Morgan wrote: "John had a larger-than-life physical and psychic presence. Likeable, eccentric, egocentric, kind, brusque, take your pick from the thesaurus to describe him, he was all of these and more. A man of enormous enthusiasms, he died as lived, at full speed".

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