Peter Marcus "Mark" Adlard is an English novelist who was born in Seaton Carew on 19 June 1932. He is the son of Arthur Marcus Adlard, an auctioneer, and Ethel Leech. Adlard was educated at the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

, Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Department of Education at Oxford.Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, vol. 2, R. Reginald, 1979, p. 791 Adlard's best-known works are the

social science fiction Social science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, usually (but not necessarily) soft science fiction, concerned less with technology/space opera and more with speculation about society. In other words, it "absorbs and discusses anthropol ...

novels ''Interface'', ''Volteface'', and ''Multiface''. published during the early 1970s. The novels concern Tcity, a 22nd-century domed

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covering the entirety of the English North Eastern industrial area between the River Tyne and the River Tees. A later novel, ''The Greenlander'' (1978) concerns the

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industry in Northeast England during the early years of steam-powered shipping. This was intended to be the first of a series but, to date, no further volumes have been published.

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