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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
East, Rebecca
Pseudonym of US author Rebecca Warner (1951- ), a psychology professor at the University of New Hampshire. Her first novel A.D. 62: Pompeii (2003), is a Time Travel tale whose protagonist – a twenty-first-century expert in the period – is sent on an exploratory mission to the first century Roman empire, but is stranded there, and to survive becomes a kind of Scheherezade, telling stories out of her centuries of ...
Cosmic Science Stories
UK Pulp magazine; one undated issue, circa June 1950, published by Popular Press, London; an abridged reprint of the September 1949 issue of Super Science Stories. The lead novelette was "Minions of Chaos" by John D MacDonald. This magazine was actually #11 in the "New All-Action Stories" series of pulp reprints covering several genres, mostly Western and crime/mystery fiction; ...
Dabos, Christelle
(1980- ) French author best-known for The Mirror Visitor sequence of Young Adult tales beginning with Les fiancés d'hiver (2013; trans Hildegarde Serle as A Winter's Promise 2018), initially readable as relatively straightforward fantasy featuring a young protagonist with Psi Powers – the ability to divine the meaning of past objects and to pass physically ...
Jeapes, Ben
(1965- ) UK author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Digital Cats Come Out Tonight" (in Digital Dreams, anth 1990, ed David V Barrett), and who has since published frequently in Interzone. His novels have been directed to Young Adult markets, and include the His Majesty's Spaceship sequence comprising His Majesty's Spaceship ...
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 ...