Peter Currell Brown (born 1936) is a British author who penned the cult classic 1965 surrealist novel, Smallcreep's Day.
Biography
Brown was born in Colchester, Essex, England in 1936, and went to Colchester Royal Grammar School, which he left at fifteen. His first job working in a factory was the stimulus for Smallcreep's Day. In 1960, Brown was one of a small group who sat down and blocked the entrance of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Foulness. He was sentenced to six months in jail when he refused to agree not to repeat the action. In the following year he was one of the "Eskimo Navy" which boarded Polaris submarines in kayaks, resisting the establishment of the base at Holy Loch. He was a member of the Committee of 100 founded by Bertrand Russell to organise mass non-violent resistance to nuclear war. He married in 1962, and his first child was born later that year. The following year he moved to a small cottage in rural Gloucestershire, where he raised his four children. He worked at various jobs locally, including Dursley's main factory, Lister's and Peter Scott’s Wildfowl Trust in Slimbridge. In 1966 he set up a craft pottery he called The Snake Pottery in Cam. He later gave up employed work to concentrate on the pottery. In 1987 he separated from his wife and moved out of the cottage.
In 1980 Mike Rutherford released his first solo album named after and inspired by Smallcreep's Day.
Smallcreep's Day was republished in September 2008 by Pinter & Martin.
References
- "Curiosities". Fantasy and Science Fiction. February 2009. Reprint at SFSite (sfsite.com/fsf). Retrieved 2014-09-27.
- "Brown, Peter Currell". Last modified September 8, 2014. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (sf-encyclopedia.com). Retrieved 2014-09-27. Entry by 'JC', John Clute.
- Smallcreep's Day [paperback] - £7.99 : Pinter & Martin Publishers Archived 2008-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
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