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Broderick, Damien
(1944-2025) Australian author, editor and critic; he had a PhD in the semiotics of fiction, science and sf with special reference to the work of Samuel R Delany. He edited four anthologies of Australian sf: The Zeitgeist Machine (anth 1977), Strange Attractors (anth 1985), Matilda at the Speed of Light (anth 1988) and Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction (anth ...
Phylos the Thibetan
Pseudonym of US author Frederick Spencer Oliver (1866-1899), whose Zailm Numinos sequence – comprising A Dweller on Two Planets; Or, the Dividing of the Way (completed 1886; 1905) and An Earth Dweller's Return (1940) – braces its underlying Occultism [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] with some sf elements: the revelation of Atlantis ...
Greener, Leslie
(1900-1974) South Africa-born Australian Egyptologist and author, of whose works in various categories Moon Ahead (1951; cut 1952) is of interest as an attractively told Young Adult adventure into space, and The Wizard Boatman of the Nile and Other Tales from Egypt (coll 1957) contains some fantasies. [JC]
Valens, E G
(1920-1992) US journalist, documentary film maker and author who is of sf interest for Cybernaut: A Space Poem (1968 chap), a narrative poem set in the Near Future and eulogizing the space programme. [JC]
Maras, Karl
A House Name of the London publishers Comyns/Paladin Press, used twice by Kenneth Bulmer and once by Peter Hawkins. [JC/DRL]
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 ...