Bertram John Boland (12 February 1913 – 9 November 1976) was a British novelist and science fiction author.
Boland was born in Birmingham, but later lived in East Sussex, on the edge of Ashdown Forest with his wife, Philippa.[1] His most well known book was The League of Gentlemen (1958) which was released as a film. However, characters' names and the ending were changed.[2] He wrote two sequels:
The Gentlemen Reform (1961)
The Gentlemen at Large (1962)
They continued with the characterisations developed in the film.
His first novel "White August" (1955) was a science fiction weather control disaster story. His second, "No Refuge" (1956) begins as a bank robbery crime story but them changes into science fiction, depicting a futuristic lost world.[3] In this world children get much of their education from computers and adults walk around with a small device on their chest, listening to music through earpieces.[4]
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