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Byrne, Stuart J
(1913-2011) US screenwriter and author who began publishing sf with "The Music of the Spheres" for Amazing in August 1935. He was intermittently active after World War Two in the magazines, sometimes writing as John Bloodstone, a name he used also for some routine sf adventures, most notably the Star Man sequence [see Checklist below]. Also as Bloodstone, he wrote one Tarzan book, which the Edgar Rice ...
Zanger, Molleen
(1948- ) Panamanian-born US author of a Feminist sf tale, The Year Seven (1993), whose protagonist, and other female survivors, find themselves alone (and liberated) by the elimination of all other animal life, including human males. Gardenias Where There Are None (1994) involves a lesbian romance between a contemporary woman and a long-dead ghost. [JC]
Brantenberg, Gerd
(1941- ) Norwegian author, whose novels frequently address Feminist issues in particular, and Gender issues in general; she is best known with the English language readers for Egalias Dotre (1977; trans Louis McKay as The Daughters of Egalia 1985; vt Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes 1985), a sharply comic take on Sex ...
Del Martia, Astron
A House Name invented by publisher Stephen Frances for his second publishing house, the self-named S D Frances, and used there by John Russell Fearn on The Trembling World (1949), in which relics of an ancient Alien civilization are found in a valley of stone statues in Brazil; it is the best of the Del Martia titles. The name was then sold on to ...
Real Time Strategy
Term used to describe a form of Computer Wargame which combines elements borrowed from 4X Games and strategic board and counter Wargames with continuous ("real time") gameplay. Typically, players must simultaneously research new technologies and gather resources such as fuel and metal, while using those resources to build structures on the battlefield and produce military units which can be used in ...
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 ...