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Hassler, Kenneth W
(1932-1999) US personnel specialist and author whose routine sf novels, most of them Space Operas, are The Glass Cage (1969), Destination: Terra (1970), The Dream Squad (1970), A Message from Earth (1970), Intergalac Agent (1971) and The Multiple Man (1972). [JC]
Casewit, Curtis W
(1922-2002) German-born author, in US from 1948; linguistically fluent, he did military service with the French Army in World War Two, later serving as an interpreter for the British Army. Almost all of his work was nonfiction, much of it about skiing; he began publishing work of genre interest with an sf story, "The Mask", for Weird Tales in March 1952. His sf novel, The Peacemakers (1960), depicts conflicting societies in a virtually depopulated ...
Hernandez, Catherine
(? - ) Canadian actor, playwright and author whose first novel, Scarborough (2017), set in Metropolitan Toronto, is nonfantastic. Her second novel, Crosshairs (2020), set in a Near Future version of Toronto not dissimilar to that depicted in the previous tale, describes a Canada given over to Dystopian oppression, with those of the wrong race (see ...
Blaylock, James P
(1950- ) US author, born and based in California, whose first published sf was "Red Planet" for Unearth #3 in Summer 1977, and whose "The Ape-Box Affair" (April 1978 Unearth) (see Apes as Human) may be the first consciously Steampunk tale; his first books were two fantasies in his Elfin series, The Elfin Ship (1982; original ...
Home-Gall, Edward R
(1897-1974) UK author, son of William Benjamin Home-Gall; in active service during World War One, enlisting under-age and at Gallipoli in 1915; he was the most prolific of all authors of work for the Boys' Papers after Frank Richards (usual pseudonym of Charles Hamilton [1876-1961]), producing an estimated 35 million words; it is not known how much of his magazine work, much of it ...
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 reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...