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Robert Wells

A quietly inventive British science fiction writer, he built unsettling adventures out of big ideas like robot dinosaurs, deep-ocean isolation, telepathy, and alien threats. His books have the feel of classic speculative fiction: brisk, strange, and full of imaginative twists.

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The Bread and Biscuit Baker's and Sugar-Boiler's Assistant

The Bread and Biscuit Baker's and Sugar-Boiler's Assistant

by Robert Wells

About the author

Born in London on January 31, 1929, Robert Wells was a British author who began publishing science fiction in the 1950s. His early story "The Machine That Was Lonely" appeared in The Observer's 1954 prize-story collection, marking the start of a career that would later focus on novels.

He is best known for science fiction books including The Parasaurians (1969), Candle in the Sun (1971), Right-Handed Wilderness (1973), and The Spacejacks (1975). His fiction often mixed adventure with bold speculative concepts, from robotic dinosaur safaris to underwater survival and telepathic struggles against larger threats.

Wells died on November 12, 2021. While he is not as widely known today as some of his contemporaries, his work remains of interest to readers who enjoy imaginative, idea-driven British science fiction from the late twentieth century.