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Moskowitz, Dorothy
(1940- ) US singer-songwriter, best known as lead vocalist of the experimental rock band The United States of America (1967-1968). Her solo album Rising to Eternity (2023) was inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope, and is in Moskowitz's words "a free-form fantasy" about what revelations it may open up. These include the discovery of Alien life forms, a planet of constantly raining metal, and previously unknown ...
Claro, Joe
(? - ) US author of a wide range of titles, some as Joe Claro, some as Joseph Claro; those of sf interest include I Can Predict the Future (1972); two Love Bug Ties, Herbie Goes Bananas (1980) and Herbie the Matchmaker (1982); and other film Ties including Condorman (1981), Voyagers! (1982) and SpaceCamp (1986). ...
Sullivan, Robert
(1953- ) US journalist and author, most of whose work has been nonfiction, much of it associated with Life magazine, where he served as a senior editor for many years. Of sf interest are two spoof "nonfiction" studies, both elaborately arrayed with confabulated documentary evidence about their subject matters. The first, The Flight of the Reindeer: The True Story of Santa Claus and his Christmas Mission (1996), is constructed in part around a ...
Beverley, Barrington
Pseudonym used for two sf novels by Harry Leigh Pink (1906-1973), UK author who also wrote western and crime fiction under the working name Hal Pink; other pseudonyms were H Carson Marksman and Charles Van Horn. He was active in UK magazines (including The Passing Show) and US Pulps from 1925, and as a novelist from 1932 to 1941. The Beverley titles are The Air Devil (1934), which is as much ...
Roberts, Adam
(1965- ) UK academic (currently Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London) and author who began his two intertwined writing careers – as an sf novelist and as a critic – in the same year with the release of his first work of fiction, Salt (2000), and his first work of scholarship, Science Fiction (2000; rev vt Science Fiction: Second Edition 2006). He has perhaps become better ...
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 ...