Dafydd ab Hugh

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(October 22, 1960 – )

Dafydd ab Hugh (born David Friedman in Los Angeles), is an sf writer best known for his novelette, "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk" (Asimov's, August 1990), which was nominated for the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.

He wrote several Star Trek books and co-wrote four novels about the game Doom with Brad Linaweaver.

During the 1980s, he served in the United States Navy. The son of a secular Jewish father and a Welsh-descended mother who converted to Judaism on marriage, he legally changed his name to the Welsh for "David, son of Hugh."



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