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Pogue, Bill

(1930-2014) US Skylab astronaut and author, whose The Trikon Deception (1992) with Ben Bova, a Near Future tale set on a vast orbiting satellite where scientists employed by various private corporations are ostensibly united in an attempt to work out a technological fix to save the planet, which is decaying rapidly through Ecological degradation; but conflicts soon ensue. [JC]

William Reid Pogue

born Okemah, Oklahoma: 23 January 1930

died Cocoa Beach, Florida: 3 March 2014

works

• The Trikon Deception (New York: Tor, 1992) with Ben Bova [hb/Paul Stinson]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls and Graham Sleight.
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