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Gheusi, Pierre-Barthélmy
(1865-1943) French editor, playwright, theatrical director and author, who often gave his name as P-B Gheusi; many of his opera librettos contain elements of fantasy, though no sf. For the Atlantis fantasy Les Atlantes, aventures des temps légendaires (portions in feuilleton form 1904 La Nouvelle Revue; 1905; trans Brian Stableford as The Last Days of Atlantis 2015) with ...
Landis, Marie
(1920-1999) US author who published solely in collaboration with Brian Herbert: some short fiction, but more notably two novels, Memorymakers (1991), which deals with a future Earth riven by cannibalism, and The World of Darkness: Vampire: Blood on the Sun (1997), a Tie to the Role Playing Game. [JC]
Freas, Frank Kelly
(1922-2005) American illustrator, born Frank Kelly; he added the last name Freas after his stepfather adopted him, and was often known professionally simply as Kelly Freas. For many years, Freas was sf's most popular artist, and he surely qualifies as its most productive; after half a century of steady work, his accomplishments were staggering. / After some freelance jobs and military service during World War II, the self-trained Freas decided to pursue his longstanding interest in science ...
Norminton, Gregory
(1976- ) UK anthologist and author whose first novel, The Ship of Fools (2002), places an exorbitantly various and marginally fantasticated examples of Homo sapiens taken fairly directly from "The Ship of Fools" (before 1500) by Hieronymus Bosch (circa 1450-1516) (see Ship of Fools), where they disport dismayedly. Arts and Wonders (2004) exploits another medieval/renaissance topos, the ...
Neason, Rebecca
(1954-2010) US author most of whose work was fantasy; of sf interest is Star Trek, the Next Generation #27: Guises of the Mind (1993), a competent Tie to the Star Trek universe, in the Star Trek, the Next Generation series, involving planetfall on a dangerously transformed world. [JC]
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 ...