Fry, Stephen

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1957-    ) UK actor and author, known for his versatility and wit, perhaps most widely famous for the role of Jeeves in the television series of P GWodehouse'sJeeves and Wooster (1990-1993) and more recently as a popular pundit on the social network Twitter. Of his several novels,Making History (1996), a complexTime Travel tale whose outcome is anAlternate History, is sf; it received aSidewise Award. An attempt to sterilize Hitler's parents before his conception backfires – though Hitler himself does not exist,World War Two ends all the same in a kind ofHitler Wins world,Dystopian and stifling. The plot – whose protagonist hopes to change history back again in order to get his love back, even though the new history of the world has no Holocaust (seeHolocaust Fiction) – unpacks some clearly devastating implications.The Stars' Tennis Balls (2000; vtRevenge2002) is an essentially nonfantastic recasting of AlexandreDumas'sThe Count of Monte Cristo (1844-1845); some of the vengeful protagonist's manipulations of theInternet are perhaps speculative. [JC]

Stephen John Fry

born London: 24 August 1957

works (highly selected)

• Making History (London: Hutchinson,1996) [hb/Andrew Olney]
• The Stars' Tennis Balls (London: Hutchinson,2000) [hb/Artist Partners]
  • Revenge (New York: Random House,2002) [vt of the above: hb/]

links

• Stephen Fry
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

previous versions of this entry

• Internet Archive