(1918-2010) UK writer, previously a bookseller and involved with FANDOM from the 1930s, who began publishing sf professionally with "The Silent Ship" (1965 NEW WORLDS) and "The Garden of Paris" (in Weird Shadows from Beyond, anth 1965, ed E J CARNELL). Three earlier stories had appeared 1937-1938 in the Leeds-based FANZINE Amateur Science Stories edited by Douglas W F Mayer. Williams was the author of nine more or less routine sf novels for ROBERT HALE LIMITED, starting with The Time Injection (1968). To End All Telescopes (1969) glibly deploys IMAGINARY SCIENCE to justify the INVENTION of a supertelescope which not only revolutionizes ASTRONOMY but allows observation of LIFE ON OTHER WORLDS. The Drop In (1977), his sole non-Hale book, is an ALIEN-INVASION novel of some interest. [JC/DRL]
born Peckham, London: 22 July 1918