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Yolen, Jane
(1939-2026) US author, partially resident in Scotland, who began publishing poems and articles when still in college, and who first came to notice with books for children, the first of many being Pirates in Petticoats (1963). Of her circa 460 titles, many of which won awards in her field, most were for children (see listing below for some of these), many of them being picture books for younger children; most of her adult fiction, of which she wrote relatively little, was ...
Ísberg, Fríða
(1992- ) Icelandic poet and author, active from around 2015; she is of sf interest for her first novel, Merking (2021; trans Larissa Kyzer as The Mark 2024), a Near Future Dystopia involving Cultural Engineering through "well-meant" but deeply intrusive monitoring of the population of Iceland through an ...
Hervey, Michael
(1915-1979) UK author who moved to Australia in 1951; born Mark Hockman but known as Mark Hoffman until he changed his name by deed poll to Michael Hervey in 1942. He is the author of an estimated 3500 short stories in various genres. His sf work is minor; it includes a Utopia, Strange Hunger (1946), in which the Federated States must defend themselves against evil Slavonia, and The Silver Death (?1945 chap), about a German ...
Samovar
US professional Online Magazine, an offshoot sister publication to Strange Horizons, filling one of that magazine's weekly slots on a quarterly basis, starting 27 March 2017. / Samovar is edited by Sarah Dodd and Greg West, along with co-editor Sarah Brooks, with an Advisory Board that includes Dr Helen Marshall, Rachel Cordasco and ...
Kennedy, Leigh
(1951- ) US author, in the UK since 1985; married to Christopher Priest 1988-2011. Her sf stories, beginning with "Salamander" in Analog for June 1977, combine generic sharpness of address and a "literary" density. "Her Furry Face" (mid-December 1983 Asimov's), perhaps her best-known single work, exemplifies this duality of effect in a striking presentation of love between ...
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 ...