David Guy Compton (b. London, Great BritainAugust 9, 1930) is a science fiction author who publishes under the name D.G. Compton. London (pronounced ) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and the largest city of England (strangely, England has no constitutional existence within the United Kingdom, and therefore cannot be said to have a capital). ... August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ...
Compton began publishing with his 1965 novel The Quality of Mercy. His 1968 novel The Steel Crocodile (alternate title The Electric Crocodile) was nominated for the Nebula Award. The Nebula is an award given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the two previous years. ...
He was named the 2007 Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Science Fiction Writers of America, or SFWA (pronounced siff-wah or seff-wah), was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight. ...
Of course, Compton's unseemly preoccupation with people is rendered even more disturbing by his tendency to select women as the main protagonists in his novels.
In fact, it could be argued that, like mos writers, Compton doesn't write about 'people' at all, but merely attaches the same assortment of character traits to roughly similar sheets of cardboard and gives them each a funny hat to traipse about in.
As I mentioned in a previous footnote, Compton's prominence in the field is largely attributable to the flatness of the surrounding terrain.
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