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Alph

Alph

by Charles Eric Maine

1972FictionSex ratioParthenogenesisEnglish Science fictionScience fiction
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expanded version of 'World Without Men' (1958)

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FictionSex ratioParthenogenesisEnglish Science fictionScience fictionMan-woman relationships
First published 1972

About the author

Charles Eric Maine
Charles Eric Maine

21 January 1921 – 30 November 1981

Charles Eric Maine is the pen name of David McIlwain. He was born in Liverpool, UK. He published three issues of a science fiction magazine called The Satellite which he co-edited along with J. F. Burke. From 1940 to 1941, he published his own magazine called Gargoyle. During World War II, he was in the Royal Air Force and served in Northern Africa in 1943. After the war, he worked in TV engineering, and became involved in editorial work with radio and TV. During 1952, he sold his first radio play, Spaceways, to the BBC. Due to its popularity, it became a novel as well as a movie. He wrote more than a dozen novels, four of which were made into movies. He died in London in 1981. Source: …

Author

Charles Eric Maine

First published

1972

Pages

218

Read time

≈ 5h

Editions

7

Language

English

Publisher

Nelson Doubleday

ISBN

9780345029041

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