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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author, active from around 1950, several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
Pythagorolunister
Pseudonym of the author (? - ), possibly John Kirkby, of a Proto SF text involving Space Flight, Journey to the World in the Moon: A Dream, Containing an Historical Relation, (as received from a Lunar Philosopher) from above a Hundred Years last past, to the present Time, of the most Material Occurrences, as to the Religion, Politics ...
Detzer, Diane
(1930-1992) Birth name of US author used for some of her sf, though she has also published much material as Adam Lukens, and some as Jorge de Reyna, the surnames being those of her second husband Arthur Lukens and her third husband Rudy de Reyna. Detzer began publishing sf with "The Tomb" in Science Fiction Stories for November 1958, and soon released a number of novels, from The Sea People (1959) to Eevalu (1963), as Adam ...
Bradford, J S
(? -? ) UK author of Even a Worm (1936), a novel similar in content to Arthur Machen's The Terror: A Fantasy (1917; rev 1927): the animal kingdom revolts against humanity's rule. What merit it has is diminished by the concluding Clichéd rationalization of the story as being just a game-hunter's nightmare. [JE]
Volars, C G
(? - ) US author of the Young Adult Static Over Space sequence beginning with Static Over Space: Gravity and Lies (2022), whose young protagonist, an aspirational Superhero whose Superpower is the ability to fly, is abducted by entrepreneurial Aliens who take him off-planet as an entertainer. His adventures ...
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 ...