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Gilbert, John
(1926- ) US author whose sf novel, Aiki (1986), sets a gladiatorial martial-arts tale in twenty-first-century New York. [JC]
Wells, Robert Gilbert
(?1865-? ) US teacher and author, mostly resident in Iowa, where he published Anthropology Applied to the American White Man and Negro (1905), which despite its title is a fictional Satire on race relations in post-Reconstruction America (see Race in SF) with numerous sf and fantastic elements, including Invisibility, Time Travel and a ...
Cho, Elaine U
(? - ) US musician, journalist and author whose Alliance sequence beginning with Ocean's Godori (2024) is an interplanetary Space Opera sequence built around South Korea's active presence in the Solar System. Elements of dynasty-adjacent romance and Military SF cohabit. An heir to a great space family is falsely accused of murder. He is ...
Hopkins, Alice K
(1839-? ) US author whose two novels of interest veer dangerously close to occultism, though each features a Lost Race. They are A Daughter of the Druids (1892) as by A K H and Mona the Druidess; Or, the Astral Science of Old Britain (1904); in each case the lost race boasts a woman of power. [JC]
De Marco, Guy Anthony
(1963- ) US author, most of whose work has been horror; after several nonfantastic stories, he began to publish work of genre interest with "Streetwalker" in Serpentarius for 2008. Such short fiction is assembled in Absolute Truths & Outright Lies (coll 2011) and other similar titles. He is of greatest sf interest for the first (all yet published) volume of the Interface Zero sequence, Solar Singularity ...
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 ...