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Wyndham, Eric
(? -? ) UK author of Revelation: A Romance (1897), a Wandering Jew tale. Its revelations are of the expected sort, including Reincarnation and Timeslips, with a variant element in that the cursed protagonist must save two souls before he can die. [JC]
Storm, L Elizabeth
(? - ) US author of two Ties to the Television series Quantum Leap, Quantum Leap #8: Pulitzer (1995) and Quantum Leap #12: Angels Unawares (1997); though linked to the series governing Time Travel/Identity Transfer premise, the two novels are otherwise independent. [JC]
Price, Lissa
(? - ) US author of a Young Adult Dystopia, Starters (2012), set in a Near Future America devastated by a "genocide spore" that has killed off anyone not vaccinated; as only children and old people were vaccinated in time, the survivors occupy a world whose operational heart has been evacuated. Teenagers are induced to rent their bodies for short ...
Kochai, Jamil Jan
(1992- ) Pakistan-born author of refugee Afghan family, in US from infancy, whose work cannot be thought of directly in sf terms, though it clearly draws upon the churned mosaic of Fantastika, especially where that cauldron of story incorporates stories linked, as in much Arabian Fantasy, to an imperative over-story [for Arabian Fantasy see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links ...
Toynbee, Polly
(1946- ) UK journalist and author; she is of the fourth generation of Toynbees to be involved in literature. Leftovers (1966) depicts with feeble verve the mixed destinies of a group of youths in a deserted London, survivors of an obscurely described poisonous gas (see Poison) (or possibly a neutron bomb) which has destroyed the rest of humanity. There are some moments with some ...
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 ...