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Stallman, Robert
(1930-1980) Literary critic, professor of English at Western Michigan University, and author of the Book of the Beast trilogy, the last two books of which were published posthumously: The Orphan (1980), The Captive (1981) and The Beast (1982; vt The Book of the Beast 1982). The books are complex, sensitively written Fabulations, fitting between the generic borders of sf and ...
Hunt, Wray
(?1886-1951) UK author, not to be confused with the essayist Wray Hunt (? -1897), nor probably with the 1970s horror author Wray Hunt. He is of some sf interest for The Voyage to Vineland (1933), a tale which verges on Prehistoric SF in its recounting of the interactions between Mayans and Vikings a millennium ago; Galleons' Doom Deep (1939) describes the discovery of a City five miles ...
Weisman, Jacob
(1965- ) US editor and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Death and the Elephant" in Amaranth: Tales of the Supernatural (anth 1991) edited by Alayne Gelfand, most of his limited output being in collaboration with David Sandner, with whom he also collaborated on his first Anthology, The Treasury of the Fantastic: Romanticism to Early Twentieth Century Literature (anth 2001). His other ...
Winter, Edgar
(1946- ) US rock musician, whose eponymous group achieved commercial success in the 1970s. Their best known song, "Frankenstein" (1972) is an instrumental and does not mention Mary Shelley's creation. His album Standing on Rock (1981) includes sf-inspired songs with generic titles like "Martians" (see Mars) and "Tomorrowland". In 1986 he took on the task of recording songs written by L ...
Cook, Paul
(1950- ) US poet and author whose infrequent sf stories began with "The Character Assassin" in Other Worlds #1 (anth 1979) edited by Roy Torgeson. In his first novel, Tintagel (1981), a virus transports its victims, by actualizing their response to Music, into fantasy worlds into which the protagonist, who is immune to the emotional effects of music, must enter in order to rescue ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...