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Van Greenaway, Peter
Almost certainly the working name of UK lawyer, actor, scriptwriter and author Arthur Greenaway (1927-1988), according to information obtained by Steve Holland; he focused on fiction from about 1960. Though he never became known as a genre writer, much of his work was sf (see Horror in SF), including his first novel, The Crucified City (1962), a Post-Holocaust story set in a ...
Walker, Samuel
Pseudonym of the US author (? -? ) of The Reign of Selfishness: A Story of Concentrated Wealth (1891; vt Dry Bread 1899), a Near Future tale in which a country-dominating trust collapses after the economy (see Economics) fails and a Pandemic afflicts the land; an idealistic business man takes over, ruralizes the country, introduces kindly forms ...
McConnochie, Mardi
(1971- ) Australian author, partner of James Bradley; her first novel Coldwater (2001), written for adults, is nonfantastic, as is The Snow Queen (2004); she has also written fantasy for relatively young readers, She is of sf interest for the Young Adult Quest of the Sunfish sequence beginning with Escape to the Moon Islands (2017; vt ...
Lewisohn, Ludwig
(1882-1955) German-born translator, editor and author, in the US from 1890, who began writing work of genre interest with "The Cave of the Glittering Lamps" for All-Story in October-December 1910, a Lost Race tale set Underground. Of his many novels, Trumpet of Jubilee (1937), a tale about Hitler's Germany that ends in a Future War, is of sf interest. ...
Renard, Joseph
(1938-1997) US playwright and author whose sf has been restricted to The Monodyne Catastrophe (August 1970 Venture as "How We Won the Monodyne"; much exp 1977), in which Native Americans attempt to take over the eponymous Power Source. [JC]
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 ...