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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
Abel, R Cox
(1912-2001) UK aviation researcher (for the Hawker Siddeley group of aircraft manufacturing companies) and author who designed a fictional Ion Drive for his collaborative novel Trivana I (1966) with Charles Barren. The titular Spaceship's mission is to colonize Venus (see Colonization of Other Worlds). [DRL]
Gault, William Campbell
(1910-1995) US author initially active in the Pulp magazines, best remembered for his sports stories, nonfantastic Young Adult tales and long career in crime fiction. His best known Genre SF work includes the human-versus-Robot boxing story Title Fight (December 1956 Fantastic Universe; 2023 ebook) as William C Gault (see ...
Clark, William
(1916-1985) UK journalist for newspapers – diplomatic correspondent for the Observer 1950-1955 – and television; served as press secretary for Sir Anthony Eden, but resigned in protest at the invasion of Egypt during the Suez crisis in 1956. His first novel of sf interest, Number 10 (1966), puts into a Near Future frame some of his feelings, but no details of the scandal; his second, Special Relationship (1968), pits ...
Carson, Rae
(1973- ) US author, who is married to Charles Coleman Finlay; she began publishing work of genre interest with "First Waltz" in Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine for 2006, almost entirely concentrating on fantasy for the first several years of her career. The Young Adult Fire and Thorns sequence beginning with The Girl of Fire and Thorns ...
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 ...