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Travis, John
(? - ) UK author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Splintered Forest" in Phantoms for March 1997, assembled with other short fiction in Mostly Monochrome Stories (coll 2009), a title belied by the author's vivid mixing of genres and tonalities (see Horror in SF). He is of sf interest specifically for the patently Equipoisal Benji Spriteman ...
Calderon, George
(1868-1915) UK playwright, linguistic scholar, illustrator, translator and author, son of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Philip Hermogenes Calderon (1833-1898); perhaps best known for his advocacy of the plays of Anton Chekhov, several of which he produced in his own translations, some of these later published. He died on active service in World War One, aged 46. The Adventures of Downy V Green, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1902) is a Fantasy of Manners ...
Philips, Judson P
(1903-1989) US author active from the publication of "Room Number 23" (20 June 1925 Flynn's Detective Fiction), which is a locked room tale; most of the 100 or more thrillers written under both his own name, and as by Hugh Pentecost, the pseudonym under which he was best known, date however from the 1960s and 1970s. Of sf interest is Red War (1936) with Thomas M Johnson, a Near Future tale in which an accelerating War ...
2300 AD
Role Playing Game (1987). Game Designers' Workshop (GDW). Designed by Marc Miller, Timothy Brown, Lester Smith, Frank Chadwick. / 2300 AD is a loose sequel to GDW's Twilight: 2000, referred to as Traveller: 2300 in the first edition, but renamed for the much improved 1988 second edition to prevent confusion with Traveller ...
Hemingway, Hilary
(1961- ) US author of several novels in collaboration with her husband, Jeffry P Lindsay; she has also published material about her uncle, Ernest Hemingway. An sf thriller series comprising Dreamland (1995) and Dreamchild (1998), both with Jeffry P Lindsay is told in a UFO mode, featuring an Alien kept secret by the ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...