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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 ...
Fantasy Publishing Company Inc
US Small Press based in Los Angeles and specializing in sf/fantasy, generally known by its initials FPCI. One of the many semiprofessional publishing enterprises of William L Crawford, FPCI was one of the less notable companies to start issuing magazine sf in book form in the late 1940s and the 1950s. Its authors included L Sprague de Camp, L Ron ...
Dixon, Roger
(1930-1983) UK accountant and author, who also wrote as by Charles Lewis and (almost certainly) John Christian; his epic adventure about humankind's future fate, Noah II (1970; rev 1975), is based on a story idea by Dixon and his agent, Basil Bova, and began the aborted Quest series. Five Gates to Armageddon (1975) as by John Christian is a Near Future thriller involving a new Weapon in the ...
Schafer, Kerry
(1963- ) Canadian author, now in USA, whose Books of the Between sequence, comprising Between (2013) and Wakeworld (2014), whose protagonist finds herself increasingly shifting between the normal and a dream world which resembles Virtual Reality; she meets a fellow dreamshifter, romance and danger beckon. The Dream Wars sequence, beginning with The Dream Runner (2013 ebook), is ...
Darton, Eric
(1950- ) US teacher and author, much of whose nonfiction work is devoted to New York; his first novel, Free City (1996), is an exuberant Alternate History of Western Europe set in the mid 1600s, when "sleepwalkers" like Sir Isaac Newton (1640-1725), and his many colleagues and foes, were edging themselves, and the Western world, into the modern age, but only partially abandoning 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 ...