William F. Temple
| William Frederick Temple | |
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| Born |
9 March 1914 Woolwich, United Kingdom |
| Died |
15 July 1989 (aged 75) Folkestone, United Kingdom |
| Pen name | Temple Williams |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1935–1970 |
| Genre | Science fiction, Horror fiction |
| Notable works | Four Sided Triangle |
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William Frederick Temple (9 March 1914 – 15 July 1989) was a British science fiction writer, best known for novel-turned-film Four Sided Triangle.
Temple was a member of the British Interplanetary Society, the editor of their journal Bulletin, and involved in science fiction fandom before writing.[1]
Prior to World War II, Temple shared a flat in London with fellow science fiction fans Arthur C. Clarke and Maurice K. Hanson.[1] Temple wrote a gently humorous, semi-autobiographical account of this time, called Bachelor Flat, in the 1940s but failed to find a publisher. It was eventually printed in the collection 88 Gray's Inn Road: A Living-Space Odyssey (2000).[1]
His first published science fiction work was the SF-horror short story "The Kosso", published in the anthology Thrills (1935).[1] He went on to publish other works in amateur and professional magazines over the next few years.[1] Service in World War II interrupted his writing career.[1] After the war, he wrote novels and resumed publishing work in magazines, at a steady rate until about 1970.[1]
Temple's son, Cliff Temple, was a leading UK athletics journalist, writer, commentator, and coach; and his daughter, Anne Patrizio MBE is well known in the UK as a campaigner for the rights of LGBT people and their parents.
Works
His best-known work might be the novel which formed the basis for the film Four Sided Triangle, a 1949 novel which Groff Conklin called "brilliantly charactered and humanly real".[2] P. Schuyler Miller praised its "warmly believable characters."[3]
Temple also wrote space opera, such as his last novel The Fleshpots of Sansato (1968).[1]
His science fiction novels include the Martin Magnus trilogy, published in hardcover by Frederick Muller Ltd: Martin Magnus, Planet Rover (1954), Martin Magnus on Venus (1955), and Martin Magnus on Mars (1956). The first two of these were re-published in paperback in 1970 by Mayflower Books Ltd.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Temple, William F". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. March 14, 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
- ↑ "Galaxy's Five Star Shelf," Galaxy Science Fiction, May 1951, p.83.
- ↑ "The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, October 1951, p.141
- ↑ http://www.spacejock.com.au/Magnus.html
External links
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Wikisource has original works written by or about: William Frederick Temple |
- William F. Temple at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- William F. Temple at the Internet Movie Database