He used the name Guy Compton for his earlier crime novels and the pseudonym Frances Lynch for his Gothic novels. He has also written short stories, radio plays, and a non-fiction book on stammering, its causes and cures. His first published book was the 1962 crime novel Too Many Murderers.
The 1983 film Brainstorm was very similar in content to Compton"s 1968 novel Synthajoy.
In Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision, Robert Scholes and Eric South. Rabkin write:
Compton"s work is informed by an acute and subtle moral sense which avoids the extremes of satire and sentiment while compelling us to see the world ethically..he succeeds superbly in preserving certain traditional fictional values and human values in works of genuine science fiction. Compton was named the 2007 Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
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