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Bear, Elizabeth
Working name of Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky (1971- ), US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "e e 'doc' cummings" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for March 2003, and who has released at least fifty stories since; she won the 2005 John W Campbell Award for best new writer, and the Hugo award for "Shoggoths in Bloom" (March 2008 ...
Vivian, E Charles
Working name of UK editor and author of popular fiction (1882-1947), born Charles Henry Cannell but apparently changing his name legally to Evelyn Charles Henry Vivian on joining the army at the age of 18, ultimately serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War One; he wrote some non-genre novels as Charles Cannell, and some short fiction as by Sydney Barrie Lynd, Galbraith Nicolson and A K Walton. Some of that short fiction – including "The ...
Moore, Nancy Jane
(? - ) US lawyer and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Change of Command" in Sword and Sorceress VI (anth 1990) edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, with much of her early work being fantasy of an increasingly demanding nature, as demonstrated by the strong stories assembled in Conscientious Inconsistencies (coll 2008 chap). Changeling (2004 chap) ...
Architectural Metaphor
US space-rock band, formed in the Boston area in Summer 1984, whose pretentious name well suits the ramblingly overweening sf stylings of their albums. On Studio Galacti (1994) and Creature of the Velvet Void (1997) swirling synthesizers and elaborately played guitars do little to enliven various Pulpish Genre SF Clichés. [AR] see also: ...
Sturgis, Melvin
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with The Gift (November 1951 Imagination; 2021). He also wrote as Mel Sturgis and twice collaborated with Les Cole (1926-2019) under the joint pseudonym Colin Sturgis. His one sf novel was Invaders on the Moon (1970) with Kris Neville, which the publishers Belmont Books credited only to Neville despite ...
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 ...