High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fergus (also Feargus) Gwynplaine MacIntyre (1948-June 25, 2010) was a journalist, novelist, poet and illustrator, who lived in New York City and said he had lived in Scotland and Wales. MacIntyre`s writings include the science-fiction novel The Woman Between the Worlds and his anthology of verse and humor pieces MacIntyre`s Improbable Bestiary. As an uncredited “ghost” author, MacIntyre is known to have written or co-written several other books, including at least one novel in the Tom Swift IV series, The DNA Disaster, published as by "Victor Appleton" (a house pseudonym) but with MacIntyre`s name on the acknowledgments page.