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Crowley, John
(1942-2026) US teacher and author who also worked in documentary films and television for some time beginning in 1966. His sf novels have had a considerable impact on the field, and his fantasies established him as a figure whose work courteously but deeply stretched the boundaries of genre literature. / His first novel, The Deep (1975), is set on a flat discworld resting on a pillar that extends beyond measurement into the circumambient galactic Deep, in which very few stars ...
Diehl, Mrs A M
(1844-1912) UK musician and author; her career as a professional pianist began in 1861; she began writing after retiring from public musical performances. Of her nearly forty books of fiction, one is of some sf interest, Dr Paull's Theory: A Romance (1893), the plot of which hinges on Identity Transfer and its consequences. [JC]
Mano, D Keith
(1942-2016) US actor, author and playwright whose energetic novels confronted Christians (he was himself a Russian Orthodox Christian) with various moral and physical dilemmas. His second novel, Horn (1969), is a transcendental fable; his third, War Is Heaven! (1970), describes with some surreal vividness a Future War in an imaginary – but easily imagined – South American country. The Bridge (1973) is a ...
Didelot, Francis
Working name of Madagascar-born French author and screenwriter Roger-Francis Didelot (1902-1985), who wrote numerous detective novels, some as by José Bernard. He began to publish work of sf interest with La Machine à prédire la mort ["The Death Prediction Machine"] (October 1938-January 1939 Ric et Rac; 1939) with Charles Robert-Dumas (1875-1946), whose titular Machine can accurately foretell the time of death (see ...
Anyuru, Johannes
(1979- ) Swedish poet, playwright, journalist and author who is of sf interest for De kommer att drunkna i sina mödrars tårar (2017; trans Saski Vogel as They Will Drown in their Mothers' Tears 2019), set in a Near Future Dystopian Sweden where immigrants are treated as non-persons unless they contract themselves to the state. Ixelles (2022; trans Nicholas ...
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 ...