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Marshall, James Scott
(? -? ) US author of a Utopia, The Planet Mars and its Inhabitants: A Psychic Revelation: by Iros Urides (a Martian) Written Down and Edited by J L Kennon (1922) as by Iros Urides [see also Checklist below], which in lightly fictionalized terms describes an ideal society on Mars, with advanced Technology and Transportation ...
Sala, George Augustus
(1828-1895) UK journalist and author, active from the early 1850s, best known as a highly flamboyant foreign correspondent. Of moderate sf interest are two tales: The Seven Sons of Mammon (1862 3vols), a crime novel featuring a totally undetectable poison; and Margaret Forster (1897), in which, disguised as a police detective, the devil persuades an old woman into doomed Rejuvenation as a rich young seductress. [JC]
Hill, Joe
Working name of US Comics scripter and author Joseph Hillstrom King (1972- ), son of Stephen King and brother of Owen King; most of his earlier work has been horror, much of it nonfantastic, though Horror in SF topoi sometimes visit; he began to publish work of genre interest with "The Lady Rests" in Palace Corbie Seven (anth 1997) ...
Kessel, John
(1950- ) US academic and author who began publishing sf with "The Silver Man" in Galileo for May 1978, and whose short fiction rapidly established him as an author of cunningly pastiche-heavy, erudite stories. His two best known early tales – both assembled with other work in Meeting in Infinity: Allegories & Extrapolations (coll 1992) – are probably "Not Responsible! Park and Lock It!" (September 1981 ...
Flash Comics
US Comic (1940-1949). DC Comics. 104 issues. Artists include Stan Asch, Homer Fleming, Frank Harry, E E Hibbard, Harry Lampert, Sheldon Moldoff, Dennis Neville and Ed Wheelan. Scriptwriters include Gardner Fox, Evelyn Gaines, Harry Lampert, John Wentworth and Ed Wheelan. Initially 68 pages, down to 52 by the end of its run. Usually 5-6 long strips and a short text story per issue, plus occasional shorts ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book ...