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Morrow, Gray
Working name of American artist Dwight Graydon Morrow (1934-2001). After some brief training in Chicago, Morrow moved to New York in the 1950s and began drawing for Comics, which largely remained the focus of his entire career; among other early assignments, he did some work for Atlas Comics, soon to be rechristened Marvel Comics, and three issues of Classics Illustrated, one being a 1961 ...
Hines, Jim C
(1974- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Blade of the Bunny" in L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future: Volume XV (anth 1999) edited by Algis Budrys. Most of his work has been fantasy, mostly in such series as the humorous Jig the Goblin sequence beginning with Goblinquest (2004) [see Checklist below]. / In the Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse sequence ...
Sullivan, Sheila
(1927- ) Malaysian-born editor and author, in the UK from an early age, her critical nonfiction usually written as Sheila Bathurst. Her sf novel Summer Rising (1975; vt The Calling of Bara 1976) depicts a Post-Holocaust trek across a peaceful Ireland. [JC]
King, Ron
(? - ) US teacher and author, the protagonist of whose Young Adult tale, The Quantum July (2007), makes the Discovery of a capacity to shift between Parallel Worlds, and uses his ability to look for a reality in which his parents have not separated. [JC]
Bearne, C G
(1939- ) UK editor of the sf anthology Vortex: New Soviet Science Fiction (anth 1970), assembling seven stories by five contemporary Soviet authors, including Aleksandr and Sergei Abramov and Arkady and Boris Strugatski. [DRL] see also: Russia. /
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 ...