bibliograpy

[nancylebov]

Does anyone know whether the Leonard C. Lewin who wrote Report from Iron Mountain is the same person who wrote Triage.

The former is pretty famous-- it purports to be a government report about why war is generally beneficial, but is almost certainly a satire. On the other hand, has anyone filed a FOIA request?

The latter is obscure-- it's an account of a group which decides to kill people who need killing, and which adopts wider and wider criteria of who to kill.

Comments

[dsgood]

Yes, according to the Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base (http://isfdb.org)

* Biography: Bio:Leonard C. Lewin
* Bibliographic Comments: Author:Leonard C. Lewin

Novels

* Triage (1972)

Nonfiction

* The Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace (1967) with John Doe

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Same guy. Years later he wrote an article (Times book review, I think) admitting that the Report was a hoax.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I thought you'd know.

Do you have a cite? I'd like to update the Wikipedia article.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

His Times obituary mentions it.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I couldn't find a mention in your link, but there seemed to be enough evidence here and there.