John Boland (author)
Bertram John Boland (12 February 1913 – 9 November 1976) was an English 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.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.