KOCH, Eric

(1919-)

   German-born writer and tv producer, in Canada from 1935, three of whose novels are of some sf interest. In The French Kiss: A Tongue in Cheek Political Fantasy (1969), set in a NEAR FUTURE Canada threatened -as usual - by separatism, a reincarnated colleague of Napoleon muses on De Gaulle's similarity to the long-dead Emperor. The Leisure Riots: A ComicNovel (1973) suggests that, in 1980, the enforced leisure of the executive class will trigger riots. In The Last Thing You'd Want to Know (1976) a "witch" becomes US President, sweeping all before her except one torturedex-Nazi. EK was sometimes amusing, but fatally inattentive to questions of verisimilitude.

   JC