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Dallas, Paul V
(1921-1984) Maltese-born radio broadcaster and author who moved early to the USA and published a number of magazine stories in the 1950s, the first under his own name being "The Idiot" in Amazing Stories for November 1956. Further sales to Amazing and its sister magazine Fantastic followed, some bylined Paul Dallas with no middle initial; stories also reportedly appeared under various editor-imposed pseudonyms. The author's only ...
Iles, Greg
(1960-2025) US singer, songwriter, musician and author; active in the last capacity from 1993, publishing thrillers and mainstream novels often set in Natchez, Mississippi, where he grew up and lived. The supernatural thriller/romance Sleep No More (2002) features the Reincarnation of a past female lover, threatening the male protagonist's present marriage and family. Of direct sf interest is The Footprints of God (2003; vt ...
Clark, Pushman
Presumed pseudonym of Heidi Lampietti (1967- ). Pushman is the ostensible name of the nephew of Ensign Clark, creator of the (fictional) 1962 sf television series, a transcript of the episodes of which comprise The Adventures of Damian Koehkh, MD: Space Doctor (coll 2004), Fabulations told in a conspicuously gonzo voice. The proper pronunciation of Koehkh is presumably "kooky"; the book is copyright by Heidi Lampietti, who is ...
Offworld
US Semiprozine published by Neil Feigeles of Graphic Image Press, edited by Arnaldo Lopez; two issues, Fall 1993 and Winter 1993/94. Published in slim standard format (10 x 6.7 in; 257 x 170 mm), saddled stapled, it was printed in an edition of 5,000 copies, on quality coated stock with colour artwork throughout its 64 pages. Offworld emerged from the comic-book world (see Comics) rather than a descent via the ...
Verrill, A Hyatt
(1871-1954) US naturalist, explorer and author, most of whose circa 105 books were nonfiction; he contributed a science column to American Boy. He also wrote juveniles, of which the Boy Adventurers sequence is of some sf interest, most of them being Lost Race tales; relevant titles, all set in differing lost regions of British Guiana, include The Boy Adventurers in the Forbidden Land (1922), ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...