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Coover, Robert
(1932-2024) US author who established a considerable reputation with his novels, in which Fabulation and political scatology mix fruitfully. His work could be seen to represent a Postmodernist intensification of the same milieu excoriated by Richard Condon; at times both authors seem to be describing a nightmare dream of orgy-choked life in the Late Roman Empire (see ...
Dial, Judith K
Working name of Judith Klein-Dial (? - ), US author of computer manuals [not listed below] and editor of a number of genre Anthologies in collaboration with Thomas A Easton. The first of these was the Prediction-themed Visions of Tomorrow: Science Fiction Predictions That Came True (anth 2010). [DRL]
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Titles of organizations, magazines, etc., which begin "SF", meaning "science fiction", are listed as if that phrase were spelt out in full. [JC/PN]
Hale, Michael
(1949- ) UK-born author whose family emigrated to Canada when he was seven; now in the USA. Of his various novels, The Other Child (1986) is of sf interest for its description of the Upload of a dead child's mind or soul into a Computer environment which is already occupied – the tale is also obedient to the rules of Horror – by a murderous sentience, the ...
Edwards, Paul
A Pyramid Books House Name for various instalments in the John Eagle, Expeditor sequence of rough-hewn adventure tales, usually with sf elements. Authors to use the name in this series include Paul Eiden, Robert Lory and Manning Lee Stokes. [JC]
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 ...