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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Farrago's Wainscot
US Online Magazine of experimental fiction and estrangement produced by Darin Bradley of Greenville, South Carolina. It ran for twelve loosely themed issues between Winter (January) 2007 and October 2009, and was then revived in January 2015 for four quarterly online issues before folding. Most of the fiction and Poetry was some form of the fantastic, often surreal, post-modern, rarely traditional, and it attracted many new, young ...
Wilson, Daniel H
(1978- ) US engineer and author, with a PhD in robotics, a competence and interest reflected from the beginning of his writing career with the publication of the nonfiction How to Survive a Robot Uprising (2005), a slightly jocose treatment of the "threat" to society of the Robot for a Young Adult audience. Some of his fiction as well, like A Boy and His Bot (2011; vt ...
de Listonai, Mr
Attributed pseudonym of French author Daniel Jost de Villeneuve, whose full name may have been Daniel Jost de Villeneuve de Listonai (17??-17??); his Proto SF tale, Le Voyageur Philosophe dans un Pays Inconnu aux Inhabitants de la Terre (1761 2vols; trans Brian Stableford as The Philosophic Voyager in an Island Unknown to the Inhabitants of Earth 2015), carries its protagonist by space ship to the ...
Coles, Bennett R
(? - ) Canadian military officer, entrepreneur and author whose War sequence of Space Opera adventures beginning with Virtues of War (2015) puts a young un-battle-tested woman in command of some hardened troops in an expanding conflict. The arena is galaxy-wide. Terra is threatened but expansionist. [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 ...