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The sequence features the adventures of a man who, via TIME TRAVEL convention, chases a female CIA agent into Arthurian times, where she is attempting to assassinate the king, and thus to change history. Most of his work is fantasy, or-in the case of the Arthur War Lord sequence, comprising Arthur War Lord (1994) and Far Beyond the Wave (1994)-is sf with a fantasy coloration.

He is perhaps best known for his novella, "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured his Larinks, a Squeezed Novel by Mr. aB HUGH, DAFYDD (1960- ) US writer, whose Welsh-sounding name has been legalized. See also: DISASTER GENETIC ENGINEERING JAPAN PSYCHOLOGY UNDER THE SEA. Beyond the Curve (coll trans Juliet Winters Carpenter 1991 US) collects sf short stories - some sf - published in Japan 1949-66. Hakobune Sakura Maru1984 (trans Juliet Winter Carpenter as The Ark Sakura 1988 US) expands that basic metaphor in a tale about a man obsessively engaged with his bomb shelter. A later novel, Hako-Otoko (1973 trans E.Dale Saunders as The Box Man 1973 US) has some borderline sf elements its protagonist walks about and lives in a large cardboard carton along with many other Tokyo residents who have refused a life of normalcy. The resulting psychodramas include a mysterious murder and the enlistment of his unborn child into the ranks of the mutated water-breathers. Philosophical confrontation between his deeply alienated refusal of the future and the computer's knowing representations of that refusal and the alternatives to it. Most of the novel, narrated by Katsumi, deals with a This system, fatally for him, predicts his compulsive refusal to go along with his associates and his government in the creation of genetically engineered children, adapted for life in the rising seas. The protagonist, Professor Katsumi, has been in charge of developing a computer/information system capable of predicting human behaviour. It is a complex story set in a near-future Japan threatened by the melting of the polar icecaps. However, Dai-Yon Kampyoki (1959 trans E.Dale Saunders as Inter Ice US) is undoubtedly sf. He is known mainly for his work outside the sf field, like Suna no Onna (1962 trans E.Dale Saunders as Woman in the Dunes 1964 US), and has been deeply influenced by Western models from Franz KAFKA to Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) the intensely extreme conditions to which he subjects his alienated protagonists allow a dubious sf interpretation of novels like Moetsukita Chizu (1967 trans E.Dale Saunders as The Ruined Map 1969 US), or Tanin no Kao (1964 trans E.Dale Saunders as The Face of Another 1966 US). ABE, KOBO (1924-1993) Japanese novelist, active since 1948, several of whose later novels have been translated into English. ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN The INVISIBLE MAN. Flatland is a study in MATHEMATICS and PERCEPTION, and has stayed popular since its first publication. In the second part, Mr Square travels in a dream to the one-dimensional universe of Lineland, whose inhabitants are unable to conceive of a two-dimensional universe he is in turn visited from Spaceland by a three-dimensional visitor - named Sphere because he is spherical - whom Mr Square cleverly persuades to believe in four-dimensional worlds as well. The first is a highly entertaining description of the two-dimensional world of Flatland, in which inhabitants' shapes establish their (planar) hierarchical status. Narrated and illustrated by Mr Square, the novel falls into two parts. ABBOTT, EDWIN A(BBOTT) (1839-1926) UK clergyman, academic and writer whose most noted work, published originally as by A Square, is FLATLAND: A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS (1884). In The Monkey-Wrench Gang (19) and its sequel, Hayduke Lives! (1990), this pessimism is countered by prescriptions for physically sabotaging the polluters of the West which, when put into practice, nearly displace normal reality structure-hitting, as practised by 21st century saboteurs in Bruce STERLING's Heavy Weather (1994), seems to derive from EA's premise Good Times (fixup 1980) is set in a balkanized USA after nuclear fallout has helped destroy civilization an Indian shaman, along with other characters similar to those in The Monkey-Wrench Gang, fights back against tyranny. SF&F encyclopedia (A-A) ABBEY, EDWARD (1927-1989) US writer, perhaps best known for his numerous essays on the US West, in which he clearly expresses a scathing iconoclasm about human motives and their effects on the world. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by John Clute, Peter Nicholls