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Forsyth, Frederick
(1938-2025) UK author who gained fame with his first novel, The Day of the Jackal (1971), and whose books are generally political thrillers. The Shepherd (1975 chap), however, is a sentimental Timeslip or ghost fantasy in which a pilot on Christmas Eve 1957 is saved from crashing by a World War Two pilot in an antique bomber: pilot and plane had been shot down on the Christmas Eve of 1943. ...
Romilus, Arn
A Curtis Warren House Name used by Brian Holloway for one novel and by Denis Hughes for two. [JC/DRL]
Edwards, Peter
(1946- ) UK author and civil servant whose sf novel, Terminus (1976), rather ponderously sets in motion a political conflict in a twenty-second-century, Post-Holocaust Eurafrica which a sado-masochist secret society is attempting to dominate. The hero's discovery of an ancient city on Mars confuses the issue. / This author should not by confused with the Peter Edwards who illustrates children's ...
Reed, Jeremy
(1951- ) UK poet and author, much of whose fiction comprises a set of loosely-linked tales about nineteenth-century decadents; those with fantasy elements include Isidore: A Novel About the Comte de Lautreamont (1991), When the Whip Comes Down: A Novel about de Sade (1992), in which de Sade Timeslips through the centuries, and Dorian (1997), about Oscar Wilde [see also ...
Strickland, James R
(1967- ) US author of two novels in the Drumlin series, Drumlin Circus (2011 dos) and On Gossamer Wings (2011 chap dos), both with Jeff Duntemann, the series creator (who see for details). Solo, Strickland has written two singletons: Looking Glass (2007), a Near Future Cyberpunk tale set in a ...
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 ...