F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre (center) is seen here at the London offices of The Spectator with (left) Boris Johnson, Member of Parliament for Henley-on-Thames, and (right) Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Douro OBE, chairman of Richemont Holdings UK.

Fergus (also Feargus) Gwynplaine MacIntyre. Scottish-born journalist, novelist and poet, now resident in Wales and New York City. MacIntyre's writings have been praised by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Auberon Waugh, Harlan Ellison, John Brunner, Charles Sheffield, David Brin, Charles Ardai, William Safire and other authors. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1500x1560, 329 KB)This JPG is for the Wikipedia article on author F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, and is cross-referenced to the article on Boris Johnson. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1500x1560, 329 KB)This JPG is for the Wikipedia article on author F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, and is cross-referenced to the article on Boris Johnson. ... The Spectator is a conservative British political magazine, established 1828, published weekly. ... Boris Johnson on the cover of his 2002 book Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964 in New York City), better known as Boris Johnson (and occasionally as Bo-Jo within the UK tabloid press) is a British Conservative politician and journalist, with a distinctive scatty and eccentric... Arthur Charles Valerian Wellesley, Marquess of Douro (born August 19, 1945) is the son and heir of Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington. ... National motto: Cymru am byth (Welsh: Wales for ever) Waless location within the UK Official languages English, Welsh Capital Cardiff Largest city Cardiff First Minister Rhodri Morgan Area  - Total Ranked 3rd UK 20,779 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 3rd UK 2,903,085 140/km² NUTS 1... The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture, and is one of the worlds major global cities (along with London, Tokyo and Paris) with a virtually unrivaled collection of museums, galleries, performance venues, media outlets, international corporations, and stock exchanges. ... Isaac Asimov (courtesy of Jay Kay Klein) Isaac Asimov (c. ... Ray Bradbury in 1945. ... Auberon Alexander Waugh (November 17, 1939–January 16, 2001) was a British author and journalist. ... Harlan Ellison, c. ... Notable people named John Brunner include: John Brunner (industrialist) John Brunner (novelist) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Charles Sheffield (June 25, 1935–November 2, 2002), was an English-born mathematician, physicist and science fiction author. ... A recent picture of David Brin. ... Charles Ardai (born 1969) is an entrepreneur, writer, and editor. ... William L. Safire (born December 17, 1929) is an author, semi-retired columnist, and former journalist and presidential speechwriter. ...

Biographical information

MacIntyre is known to have been born circa 1948 in Perthshire, Scotland, and he has acknowledged changing his name (by deed poll) to its present form at some time in the 1970s, but he has been evasive about his precise birthdate and parentage. In the United Kingdom (unlike in most other nations), birth certificates are public documents; it is believed that MacIntyre's reticence about his vital statistics is partly a defense against the mounting problem of identity theft but largely due to his unresolved hostility towards his family. One of the few clues to MacIntyre's lineage occurs in his book review for The Wind on the Moon, a fantasy novel by Eric Linklater. In his review (published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2003), MacIntyre acknowledges that he is related to Linklater's wife. In an interview with the New York Times (July 24, 2005), MacIntyre stated that he has or once had a fraternal twin brother. 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Perthshire is an traditional county in central Scotland, which extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, Rannoch Moor and Ben Lui in the west, and Aberfoyle in the south. ... Travel guide to Scotland from Wikitravel Transport in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history Caledonia List of not fully sovereign nations Subdivisions of Scotland National parks (Scotland) Traditional music of Scotland Flower of Scotland Wars of Scottish Independence National Trust for Scotland Historic houses in Scotland Castles in Scotland Museums in... Maria Elizabeth Winblad (1895-1987) birth certificate In most countries, a birth certificate is an official legal identity document usually containing most of the following information: Name at birth Date and time of birth Sex Place of birth Birth registration number (NHS number in UK) Legal parent(s) (including in... Identity theft (or identity fraud) is the deliberate assumption of another persons identity, usually to gain access to their finances or frame them for a crime. ... Eric Robert Russell Linklater (1899-1974) was a Scottish writer, known for more than 20 novels, also short stories, travel writing and autobiography, and military history. ... F&SF April 1971, special Poul Anderson issue. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

MacIntyre was born with Hallopeau-Siemens syndrome, an extremely rare mutation causing blistering of the flesh on the subject's arms and legs, and webbing of the fingers and toes. Skin grafts do not resolve the problem; if the webbing is surgically removed, it grows back. MacIntyre's working-class parents were unwilling to raise a handicapped child, and in 1954 he became one of the 150,000 child migrants who were expatriated from postwar Britain under false pretenses to farms and orphanages in Australia, where they were used as slave labor. More than 20 years after his expatriation, MacIntyre's parents contacted him to attempt a reconciliation: he discovered that his non-identical twin (who did not share the Hallopeau-Siemens mutation) needed a kidney transplant, and the reconciliation was merely a ruse attempting to obtain one of MacIntyre's kidneys. As MacIntyre later told the New York Times: "First they aborted me, then they tried to use me for stem-cell donations." Slavery is any of a number of related conditions involving control of a person against his or her will, enforced by violence or other clear forms of coercion. ...

In 1999, MacIntyre testified under oath to the Forde Inquiry Commission conducted by the Queensland government in Australia. This inquiry verified that, under his birth name, MacIntyre had spent part of his childhood and adolescence in several Queensland institutions, including the Marsden Home for Boys at Narangba, Kallangur; the Industrial Home at Yarrabah Mission Station and the Westbrook Farm Home for Boys, all of which are now decommissioned. Some of these institutions have been formally identified by the Forde Inquiry as abusive environments in which pre-teen children were sentenced to slave labor, and given no education. Because of MacIntyre's disfigured arms, he was easily identified by several other deponents in the Forde Inquiry who had known him by his previous name more than four decades earlier. The Forde Inquiry is the informal title of a lengthy report presented to the government of Queensland, Australia in May 1999. ... Motto: Audax at Fidelis (Bold but Faithful) Nickname: Sunshine State/Smart State Other Australian states and territories Capital Brisbane Government Governor Premier Const. ...

Among the many abuses of the "child migrant" program was the fact that the British children expatriated to Australia (including MacIntyre) were stripped of their U.K. citizenship, and formally registered as Australian citizens. In 1961, MacIntyre returned to Britain via the fraudulent technique of "ghosting", using authentic I.D. issued to a deceased person. He eventually sued the U.K. government to recognize his British citizenship. Citizenship is membership in a political community (originally a city but now usually a state), and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Career

MacIntyre began his literary career while still a teenager, writing science-fiction and horror novels under various house pseudonyms for the U.K. publisher Badger Books. At some point in the 1960s, he took the Gaelic name "Feargus Mhic an-t'Saoir", later anglicized to "Feargus MacIntyre". He later added the name "Gwynplaine" in homage to Victor Hugo's character of that name: the protagonist of Hugo's 1869 novel The Man Who Laughs, a book which MacIntyre cites as one of his most profound influences. A collection of well-known science-fiction novels and magazines Science fiction is a genre of fiction in which advances in science, or contact with more scientifically advanced civilizations, create situations different from those of both the present day and the known past. ... Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the reader. ... Victor Hugo Novelist, poet, playwright, dramatist, essayist and statesman, Victor-Marie Hugo (February 26, 1802–May 22, 1885) is recognized as one of the most influential French Romantic writers of the 19th century. ... DVD cover of the film adaptation. ...

In the mid-1960s, MacIntyre joined the television production firm of Lew Grade, later Sir Lew Grade and then Lord Grade. During this period, MacIntyre worked in various technical capacities on several TV series produced by Grade, including The Champions and The Prisoner. Lew Grade, Baron Grade (birth name Louis Winogradsky) (December 25, 1906 - December 13, 1998) was an influential showbusiness impresario and television company executive in the United Kingdom. ... Alexandra Bastedo, Stuart Damon, and William Gaunt as The Champions. ... The Prisoner was a controversial 1967 UK television series, starring Patrick McGoohan, created by McGoohan and George Markstein. ...

A letter addressed to F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre in 1978, written to him by Lady Amabel Williams-Ellis, widow of Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, the architect of Portmeirion. MacIntyre was a member of the tech crew that filmed The Prisoner on the grounds of Portmeirion in 1966.

MacIntyre briefly revisited Australia in the early 1970s, then returned to Britain and worked as a reporter and stringer for several Fleet Street newspapers. In 1975 he covered the notorious abduction/murder of heiress Lesley Whittle, but resigned in protest at the manner in which his editors violated the Whittle family's privacy. This event inspired his decision to relocate to the United States. MacIntyre has worked in the professional theater as an assistant to the producers Herman Shumlin and Alexander H. Cohen. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2184x1188, 263 KB) Summary This JPG accompanies the Wikipedia article on author F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, and is cross-referenced to the article on Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2184x1188, 263 KB) Summary This JPG accompanies the Wikipedia article on author F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, and is cross-referenced to the article on Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. ... A part of Portmeirion. ... The Prisoner was a controversial 1967 UK television series, starring Patrick McGoohan, created by McGoohan and George Markstein. ... For the television series tentatively titled Fleet Street, see Boston Legal. ... Lesley Whittle was a 17-year-old girl who became the youngest and most famous victim of Donald Neilson, the notorious British murderer known as the Black Panther. ...

As an author in Britain and the U.S.A., MacIntyre has published non-fiction and fiction (sometimes pseudonymously) in several genres, but he is best-known as a science-fiction author. His stories have been published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Analog Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, Absolute Magnitude, the Irish magazine Albedo and other magazines and anthologies. Asimovs Science Fiction is a science fiction magazine, first published in 1977 as Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine or IASFM for short. ... Astounding Stories was a seminal science fiction magazine founded in 1930. ... Amazing Stories magazine, sometimes retitled Amazing Science Fiction, began in April 1926, becoming the first science fiction magazine and one of the pioneers of science fiction in the United States. ... This page is about the fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine and its heirs. ... In astronomy, absolute magnitude is the apparent magnitude, m, an object would have if it were at a standardized distance away. ...

MacIntyre has authored mystery stories set in many different historical periods, distinguished by his intensively detailed recreations of these times and places. His published mystery stories include "Death in the Dawntime" (1995), set among the Wiradjuri aborigines of Australia in 35,000 BC; "The Weighing of the Heart" (2002), set in ancient Egypt during the civil war of the 21st dynasty; "Reliquary" (1996), set in a monastery in Cornwall in 589 AD; and "Murder As You Like It" (1997), which inserts an offstage homicide into the action of Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It, using this crime to explain some of the irrational motivations in Shakespeare's play. In modern colloquial English, a mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction (see mystery fiction). ... The Wiradjuri, or Wiradhuri, are an indigenous people of Australia, who speak the Aboriginal language of that name. ... Motto: Onan hag oll (Cornish: One and all) Cornwall, England Geography Status Ceremonial and (smaller) Non-metropolitan county Region South West England Population - Total (2004 est. ... William Shakespeare—born April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; died April 23, 1616 (O.S.), May 3, 1616 (N.S.)—has a reputation as the greatest of all writers in English. ... Comedy is the use of humor in the form of theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy. ... Scene from As you like it, Francis Hayman, c. ...

MacIntyre's poetry, originally published in Auberon Waugh's Literary Review and in British anthologies, has been collected in his book MacIntyre's Improbable Bestiary (2002). His poetry maintains strict adherence to traditional rhyme and meter, a practice which has made MacIntyre a target of derision from poets and critics who prefer more modern free-form verse techniques. He has been nominated three times (1980, 1990, 1991) for the Rhysling Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. In general, MacIntyre's writings are distinguished by inventive use of language. He has coined several useful words: among these are "glutcorp" (a huge global corporation), "yesterwards" (to denote time travel into the past), "robutler" (a cybernetic servant) and "nanobots" (microscopic robots). Language authority William Safire has credited MacIntyre's contributions to the English language (New York Times, "On Language", December 2, 2001), identifying MacIntyre as the inventor of the term "clintonym" and the coiner of the phrase "the Syntax Pretentious". MacIntyre has also popularized the time-travel terms "elsewhen" and "anywhen", although he denies inventing these. Literary Review was founded in 1979 for people who love reading. ... The Rhysling Awards are an annual award given for the best science fiction poetry. ... The Science Fiction Poetry Association(SFPA)was founded in 1978 to bring together poets and readers interested in science fiction poetry. ... Time travel is a concept that has long fascinated humanity—whether it is Merlin experiencing time backwards, or religious traditions like Mohammeds trip to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven, returning before a glass knocked over had spilt its contents. ...

In addition to his published work under his own name, MacIntyre is known to have done "ghost writing" duties for public figures. He normally does not identify the authors whom he has assisted in this manner; however, after the 1991 suicide of Jerzy Kosinski, MacIntyre acknowledged that he wrote much of Kosinski's 1982 novel Pinball, which features a character named Gwynplaine. MacIntyre has also been identified as the pseudonymous author of a 1991 Tom Swift IV novel, The DNA Disaster. Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act. ... Jerzy Kosiński. ... Pinball is a type of coin-operated arcade game where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more metal balls on a playfield inside a glass case. ... Tom Swift is the protagonist in this series of childrens science fiction adventure novels. ...

F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre (right) with American journalist Andy Rooney at a 1990 awards banquet.

MacIntyre has been instrumental in the recovery of several so-called "lost" motion pictures that were produced in Germany and other nations in the 1930s or earlier, but which were no longer known to exist in archives in their nations of origin. Acting on reports from a correspondent in the former Soviet Union, MacIntyre ascertained the location of a trove of films in Uzkoe, Russia, that had been confiscated by troops of the Soviet Red Army during their invasion of Germany in the 1940s. These films are now safely in private hands, undergoing restoration. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (837x558, 114 KB) Summary This JPG accompanies the Wikipedia article on author F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, and is cross-referenced to the article on Andy Rooney. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (837x558, 114 KB) Summary This JPG accompanies the Wikipedia article on author F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, and is cross-referenced to the article on Andy Rooney. ... plutoniym card This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Red Army flag The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya in Russian), the armed forces organised by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ...

From 2002 to the present, while living part-time in New York City, MacIntyre has written bylined articles for the New York Daily News on various aspects of New York's cultural history. In 2003, he was short-listed for the Mont Blanc/Spectator Art of Writing award, for his coverage of the London arts scene. New York Daily News Building, Raymond Hood, architect, rendering by Hugh Ferriss The New York Daily News is one of the largest newspapers in the United States with a circulation well over 700,000. ... Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7,500,000 and a metropolitan area population of between 12 and 14 million. ...