Mark Adlard Explained

Mark Adlard
Birth Name:Peter Marcus Adlard
Birth Date:19 June 1932
Birth Place:Seaton Carew, County Durham, England
Occupation:Author
Nationality:English
Genre:Social science fiction
Historical fiction
Notableworks:Interface
Volteface
Multiface

Peter Marcus "Mark" Adlard is an English novelist who was born in Seaton Carew on 19 June 1932. He is the son of Arthur Marcus Adlard, an auctioneer, and Ethel Leech. Adlard was educated at the University of London, Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Department of Education at Oxford.[1]

Adlard's best-known works are the social science fiction novels Interface, Volteface, and Multiface.[2] published during the early 1970s. The novels concern Tcity, a 22nd-century domed megacity covering the entirety of the English North Eastern industrial area between the River Tyne and the River Tees.

A later novel, The Greenlander (1978) concerns the whaling industry in Northeast England during the early years of steam-powered shipping. This was intended to be the first of a series but, to date, no further volumes have been published.

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Notes and References

  1. Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, vol. 2, R. Reginald, 1979, p. 791
  2. Web site: Al von Ruff . Mark Adlard – Summary Biography . 2008-06-22 . ISFDB.