David Lake

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David John Lake (born 1929 in India) is an Indian-born Australian science fiction writer and literary critic. He moved to Australia in 1967.

He was originally a citizen of the United Kingdom and studied at the University of Cambridge. Before that, in India, he had a Jesuit education He began as a literary critic and in that vein he is known for The Canon of Thomas Middleton's Plays from Cambridge University Press.

He began writing science fiction in 1976. He might be best known for a sequence of books, which take a critical stance to the Barsoom novels. John Clute indicates Jungian psychology influences on some of his works. His most known work outside of that sequence is The Man who loved Morlocks from 1981. As indicated the story is a kind of sequel to The Time Machine He has been essentially inactive in the genre since 1989 with the exception of one award-winning short story. That story, The Truth About Weena, also involved the Time Machine. It won the Ditmar Award in 1999.