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Klein, Jeffrey Bruce
(1948- ) US investigative journalist, founder-editor of the magazine Mother Jones, and author; in his Near Future sf novel, The Black Hole Affair (1991) as Jeffrey Klein, which reflects his left-wing, anti-government convictions, a reporter discovers a secret government Star Wars project that could either start World War Three, or devastate the planet, or both. [JC]
Rouzade, Léonie
Pseudonym of French feminist, politician, journalist and author Louise-Léonie Camusat (1839-1916) of two sf tales, Voyage de Théodose à l'île d'Utopie ["A Voyage to the Isle of Utopia"] (1872) and Le monde renversé ["The World Turned Upside Down"] (1872), translated together by Brian Stableford as The World Turned Upside Down (omni 2015). The first is a ...
Palmer, Diana
Pseudonym of US author Susan Spaeth Kyle (1946- ), who has also published occasionally under her own name; most of her many novels are Westerns or romance tales, usually as by Palmer. Of sf interest is The Morcai Battalion (1980; rev 2008 as by Palmer), a Space Opera set in a Galactic Empire riven by a vast war. [JC]
Streib, Daniel T
(1928-1996) US journalist and author, who also wrote as by F Faragut Jones, Jonathan Schofield and Lee Davis Willoughby; much of his work was for children. His first novel, Operation: Countdown (1970) with Robert Page Jones, is a Near Future tale involving sabotage in near space; his Counter Force sequence beginning with Counter Force (1983) comprises a set of Technothriller tales with a strong ...
Bacon, Walter
(? - ) Author known only for his single sf novel for Robert Hale Limited, The Last Experiment (1974). [DRL]
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...