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Ellison, Nina E
(? -? ) US author whose novel, Nadine: A Romance of Two Lives (1897), complicatedly (but competently) interweaves North American travelogue (much enjoyed by the eponymous heroine of the tale), arguments on Economic developments and possibilities in America, along with an sf narrative where an Invention, an electric thought-reading machine, helps solve a murder at the climax of a courtroom ...
Reichardt, Jasia
(1933- ) Polish-born journalist, editor, exhibition curator and author, in UK from 1942, having escaped from the Polish ghetto with the aid of a relative, Franciszka Themerson; Reichardt later edited much work for Gaberbocchus Press (see Stefan Themerson) and elsewhere. Of the several exhibitions she has mounted, Cybernetic Serendipity (London: ICA, 1968-1969) (see Cybernetics) was perhaps ...
Nevinson, C R W
(1889-1946) UK author and painter, in active service during World War One as war artist on the front; active as an English exponent of Futurism both as painter, as his war work demonstrated, and as polemicist; Vital English Art (1914 chap) with Filippo Marinetti, a manifesto espousing (and attempting to corner) the Futurism movement in the UK, created an instant controversy, gaining the animosity of ...
DeMarinis, Rick
(1934-2019) US author whose first novel, A Lovely Monster: The Adventures of Claude Rains and Dr Tellenbeck (1975), applies a sharply fabulistic eye (see Fabulation) to Southern California through the lens of a revisionist take on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Or, the New Prometheus (1818 3vols), though in this case the ...
Kelsey, Franklyn
(? -? ) UK author of the James Armitage series of Young Adult tales, all featuring Lost Worlds; the first two were originally broadcast on Radio, each in several instalments, in 1934 and 1935: The Island in the Mist (1937) is set on a secluded Island in the South Pacific, whose inhabitants, descendants of the long-lost ...
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 ...