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Peck, Richard
(1934-2018) US author of children's and Young Adult fiction, including some Fantastika. The Blossom Culp series of supernatural fantasies deals with ghosts [for Ghosts and Ghost Stories see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] and opens with The Ghost Belonged to Me (1975), set in 1913, in which a ghost warns of impending ...
Hao Jingfang
(1984- ) Chinese author whose writing displays a poignant Sense of Wonder at the meteoric development that China has seen during her own lifetime (compare to Guo Xiaolu), and a recurring interest in what she herself has termed "the history of inequality". As a child, Hao was inspired to become a scientist by reading the educational magazine Shiwan ge Weishenme ["100,000 ...
Chilling Monster Tales
Letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema Magazine printed on newsprint-quality paper. One issue only: August 1966. Published by MM Publishing Ltd from New York. No editor named. / Chilling Monster Tales consisted chiefly of uncredited summaries of classic Monster or Horror films including House of Frankenstein (1944) (see ...
Schwartz, David J
(1970- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Thieves' Justice" in Dragon Magazine for February 1994, and who specialized in shorter fiction for several years. His first novel, Superpowers (2008), moved him suddenly into greater prominence with its accurate deconstruction of (and homage to) the American Superheroes genre, though it clearly inhabits a post-Watchmen ...
Allingham, H J
(1867-1936) UK editor and author, father of Margery Allingham, who wrote stories for boys, sometimes as by Ralph Rollington; his Young Adult sf novel, The Robot Man: Amazing Tale of Peril Abroad (6 July-7 September 1929 Gem Magazine; 1931 chap), about a Mad Scientist who creates a giant Robot in the Amazon, is of moderate interest. ...
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 ...