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Foster, Monalisa
(? - ) Romanian-born US author with a degree in physics, who has also worked in engineering and medicine; she began to publish work of genre interest with "Dolus Magnus: The Great Hoax" and "Equality", both in MAGA 2020 & Beyond (anth 2017) edited by Marina Fontaine, Jason Rennie and Dawn Witzke. Her first book-length fiction was Ravages of Honor (2019), opening the Ravages of Honor trilogy of swashbuckling dynastic ...
Raymond, James F
(1826-? ) US author of two Lost Race tales. The Lost Colony (1891), set during the American Civil War, is of limited interest as a lost race tale, the previously undiscovered Island in the Atlantic Ocean being inhabited by shipwrecked Puritans, though the agrarian Utopia they have created is well described. Though not coherently assembled, The Old Mountain Hermit (fixup ...
Hardingham, Edward
(1842-1929) UK poet and author known mainly for Hugh Leventhorpe (1906), a Lost Race romance featuring survivals of the Mayan civilization. [JC]
Appleman, Mark J
(1917-1989) US businessman and author whose sf Satire, The Liberation of Manhattan (1949) with Edmund DeMaitre, comically depicts the invasion of New York by its Soviet liberators. [JC]
Fleming, Ian
(1908-1964) UK author, brother of Peter Fleming; he spent World War Two working for UK naval intelligence, and it may be that the depth of his personal knowledge gave him the imaginative freedom to create his great mythic hero. Neither the occasional use of advanced technological gadgetry nor the chthonic and fantastic plots of his enormously successful James Bond sequence of thrillers, of course, makes them genuine sf. The closest any of them comes to a ...
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 ...