David G. Compton

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David Guy Compton (b. London, Great Britain August 9, 1930) is a science fiction author who publishes under the name D.G. Compton.

Compton began publishing with his 1963 novel Medium for Murder. His 1968 novel The Steel Crocodile (alternate title The Electric Crocodile) was nominated for the Nebula Award, and his 1974 novel The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe was filmed as Death Watch by Bertrand Tavernier in 1980.

He was named the 2007 Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

[edit] Bibliography

• Medium for Murder (1963)
• The Silent Multitude (1966)
• The Quality of Murder (aka The Quality of Mercy) (1967)
• The Steel Crocodile (1968)
• The Palace (1969)
• Chronocules (1970)
• Farewell, Earth's Bliss (1971)
• The Missionaries (1972)
• The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (aka The Unsleeping Eye aka Death Watch) (1974)
• A Usual Lunacy (1978)
• Synthajoy (1979)
• Windows (1979)
• Ascendancies (1980)
• Scudder's Game (1988)
• Ragnarok (1991) (with John Gribbin)
• Nomansland (1993)
• Justice City (1995)
• Back of Town Blues (1997)

[edit] External links

• D. G. Compton at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• http://www.sfwa.org/awards/2007/index.html#AuthorEmeritus