John Boyd was the main literary name of Boyd Bradfield Upchurch (October 3, 1919 – June 8, 2013), an American science fiction author, born in Atlanta, Georgia.
His best known work is his first science fiction novel, The Last Starship From Earth, published in 1968.
[1] Boyd has written about science fiction, giving a definition of the genre as "storytelling, usually imaginative as distinct from realistic fiction, which poses the effects of current or extrapolated scientific discoveries, or a single discovery, on the behavior of individuals [or] society.
"[2] Lecture by John Boyd about Science Fiction at California Revealed
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