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Pinter, Jason
(1979- ) US editor and author, active in the latter capacity from the publication of The Mark (2007), the first volume in his Henry Parker series of nonfantastic detective thrillers [not listed below] which shares some generic features but should not be confused with John Connolly's Charlie Parker series. After a fantasticated tale for younger children, Zeke Bartholomew: SuperSpy (2011), Pinter ...
Page, Norvell W
(1906-1961) US author who specialized between 1930 and 1943 in Hero/Villain Pulp adventure, much of his production being novel-length stories for The Spider, featuring the eponymous nascent Superhero, whose powers and Weapons – including a thin silk web used for climbing buildings – always press the ...
Joshi, S T
(1958- ) Writer, critic, publisher and editor best known for his bibliographic and critical work on H P Lovecraft. Born in India, S T Joshi emigrated with his family to Illinois in 1963. After graduating from Brown University in 1980 and obtaining an MA degree there in 1982, Joshi left two years into his PhD under a Paul Elmer More fellowship in classical philosophy and in 1984 obtained an editorial position at Chelsea House Publishers, ...
Duncan, Ronald
(1914-1982) UK author, poet and playwright, Benjamin Britten's librettist for the opera The Rape of Lucretia (1946); he gained some acclaim for his sourly vatic drama and poetry in the 1940s, but became very much an outsider before his death; he was generally not thought of as a genre writer. The Dull Ass's Hoof (coll 1941) contains some fantasy plays. Some of the stories in The Perfect Mistress and Other Stories (coll 1969), A Kettle of Fish ...
McCrum, Robert
(1953- ) UK editor, long with the Observer, and author whose first novel, In the Secret State (1980), is a Near Future political thriller set in a UK threatened by an indirect Tory coup – control to be maintained through Computer manipulations of the body politic. [JC]
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...