BAIR, Patrick

(? -)

   UK writer whose Faster! Faster! (1950) is a DYSTOPIAN fable with an sf flavour in which representatives of three classes, caught on a train which goes on for ever, must work out their destinies. The Tribunal (1970) satirizes a NEAR FUTURE revolution in Italy. As David Gurney, he wrote tales with a more popular slant, like The "F" Certificate (1968), which treats of a violent UK to come. Other works as Gurney: The Necrophiles (1969); the Conjurers sequence comprising The Conjurers (1972; vt The Demonists 1977 US) and The Devil in the Atlas (1976); The Evil Under the Water (1977).