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Sallis, James
(1944-2026) US musician, poet and author, briefly active in New Worlds during its Michael Moorcock-directed New-Wave phase; he began to publish work of genre interest in this context with "Kazoo" (August 1967 New Worlds) and co-edited the magazine 1968-1969. His clearly acknowledged models in the French avant garde and the gnomic brevity of much of his work ...
Rositzke, Harry A
(1911-2002) US CIA agent 1947-1970 whose professional focus on the USSR generated (post-retirement) nonfiction studies of interest, including The KGB: The Eyes of Russia (1980). Of sf interest is Left On!: The Glorious Bourgeois Cultural Revolution (1973) which describes guardedly the establishment of a Near Future populist Utopia in America. [JC]
Phelps, Gilbert
(1915-1993) UK broadcaster and author who spent much of his career in the BBC, as a radio producer and in other roles between 1945 and 1960. His first story, "I Have Lived a Hundred Years" in The Faber Book of West Country Stories (anth 1951), prefigured the thematic material of his first sf novel, The Centenarians (1958), whose protagonists attempt – in the end unsuccessfully – to translate their eminence in the arts and sciences into lives safely ...
McEvoy, Seth
(?1948- ) US author. His Not Quite Human sequence of young-adult sf tales is about a teenage Android, beginning with Not Quite Human #1: Batteries Not Included (1985) and ending with Not Quite Human #6: Killer Robot (1986). The Arcade Explorers sequence, all written with Laure Smith, begins with Arcade Explorers #1: Save the Venturians! (1985) and ends with ...
Justice, Inc
Role Playing Game (1984). Hero Games (HG). Designed by Aaron Allston, Steve Peterson, Michael A Stackpole. / Justice, Inc. is a game inspired by 1920s and 1930s Pulp magazine fiction; it is named after the organization formed in the first issue of The Avenger (1939) by the eponymous Doc Savage like ...
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 ...