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Coover, Robert
(1932-2024) US author who established a considerable reputation with his novels, in which Fabulation and political scatology mix fruitfully. His work could be seen to represent a Postmodernist intensification of the same milieu excoriated by Richard Condon; at times both authors seem to be describing a nightmare dream of orgy-choked life in the Late Roman Empire (see ...
Foleÿ, Charles
(1861-1956) French author of adventure novels, some with sf elements, including Kowa la Mystérieuse (1908; trans William Frederick Harvey as Kowa the Mysterious 1909), a Yellow Peril tale set in the state of Kofa – a thin disguise for California – menaced by Chinese above the ground and below: an Invasion is being planned from an ...
Sinclair, Quinn
(? - ) US author whose Young Adult tale, The Boy Who Could Draw Tomorrow (1984), features a young lad whose powers of Precognition are expressed visually; his dysfunctional family threatens to darken his own future. [JC]
Retro-Pulp
A term which recognizes the renewed interest in Pulp fiction magazines and characters long after the pulp era had finished. To some extent one might argue that this began even before the end of the pulps. The last sf pulp magazine, Science Fiction Quarterly appeared at the end of 1957 (issue dated February 1958), and it had been clear for the last three or four years that the pulps were a dying breed, being superseded by ...
Ryan, G H
(? -? ) UK author of Fifteen Months in the Moon, Giving a Full Description of its Inhabitants: Their Appearance: Customs: Laws: Modes of Locomotion: Animals: Plants, etc (1880) whose narrator, who has gained the power of Telekinesis, travels to the Moon, where he finds an Alien civilization boasting advanced forms of ...
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 ...