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Rossi, Veronica
(1973- ) Brazilian-born author, in US from early adulthood, whose Under the Never Sky (2012) is a Young Adult Dystopia; the young protagonist, exiled from the city Keep where she was born, must survive in the Ruined Earth environment outside. Fortunately she meets a young man, and they help each other. [JC]
Foote, Bud
(1930-2005) US scholar, political activist and music enthusiast; Professor Emeritus at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Literature, Communication and Culture from 1957-1999 and co-ordinator of one of the first university-level sf courses in America. He is the author of The Connecticut Yankee in the Twentieth Century: Travel to the Past in Science Fiction (1991), which argues that Mark Twain's ...
Ripley, Karen
Pseudonym of US author Mary K Urhausen (1948- ) who began publishing work of genre interest with "In Another Land" for If in 1968 as Mary Urhausen, but whose later work is always signed Karen Ripley. It includes the Prisoner of Dreams sequence comprising Prisoner of Dreams (1989) and The Tenth Class (1991), which features the adventures of a female starship-pilot who must cope with repressive authorities and with ...
Prentice, Harry
(? -? ) US author, possibly a pseudonym of James Otis Kaler; The King of Apeland: The Wonderful Adventures of a Young Animal Trainer (1888; vt The Boy Explorers: Or, How Philip Garland Became King of Apeland 1892) is effectively an unacknowledged translation of Leon Gozlan's Les Émotions de Polydore Marasquin; ou, Trois mois parmi les singes (1856 Journal Pour Tous; ...
Owen, Dean
Pseudonym – and eventually perhaps the legal name – of US author Dudley Dean McGaughy (1909-1986), whose routine novelizations of horror and sf films are The Brides of Dracula (1960); Konga (1960), based on Konga (1961); Reptilicus (1961), based on Reptilicus (1962); and End of the World (1962), based on ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...