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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
Vibbert, Marie
(1974- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Brain Trust" in Reflection's Edge for February 2006. Her first novel, Galactic Hellcats (2021), describes with mild gusto its two protagonists' adventures with "space motorcycles" as, variously pursued, they upset the applecart on a planet new to them, and continue their flight to interstellar glory. In the Near Future MegaDeath (2022) ...
Scanlon, Mitchel
(? - ) Welsh author who has focused mainly on Ties, initially and primarily for the Warhammer Wargame universe, beginning with "Red Reward" in Inferno for July-August 2003, a Warhammer 40,000 tale; his contribution to the Horus Heresy sub-sequence, Descent of Angels (2007), interestingly focuses on the eponymous colony planet after a ...
Reeves, James
(? -? ) US author of a Near Future Sex novel, Sex Teacher, 2000 A D (1972). [JC]
Shute, Nevil
Working name of UK aeronautical engineer and author Nevil Shute Norway (1899-1960), who served as a stretcher bearer in Dublin during the Easter rising in 1916, and was in active service at the end of World War One; for many years he combined writing with engineering work, specializing in Zeppelins – the failure of the R101 disillusioned and embittered him; after his demobilization from active service in World War Two, ...
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 ...