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Thorpe, Francis Newton
(1857-1920) US historian, political scientist and author, whose second novel, The Spoils of Empire: A Romance of the Old World and the New (1903), locates a Lost Race in the Mexico of late Aztec times. [JC]
Brenchley, Chaz
(1959- ) UK author, most of whose work has been Horror mixed with fantasy elements, often grounded with Horror-In-Sf rationales; he also writes as by Daniel Fox and Ben Macallan. His novel Mall Time (1991) set a pattern of complexly told tales whose outcomes – in this case unambiguously, as nine separate characters are exposed to a joint terror at the opening of a shopping mall – ...
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. /
Szpara, K M
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Ordinary Souls" in Shimmer for January 2013; his useful anthology Transcendent: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction (anth 2016), was meant to be the first of an annual series, though no further volumes have appeared. Szpara is primarily of sf interest for his first novel, Docile (2020), set in a ...
Gresh, Danny
(1989- ) From the age of ten, Danny Gresh collaborated with his mother Lois H Gresh on the Young Adult Chuck Farris books, Chuck Farris and the Tower of Darkness (2001), Chuck Farris and the Labyrinth of Doom (2001), and Chuck Farris and the Cosmic Storm (2002), all centred on PlayStation2 Videogames. He has also collaborated with Lois ...
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 ...