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Rosenberg, Aaron
(1969- ) US author of Ties under his own name and as by Cris Ramsay; they include work for the Games Workshop Warhammer universe, beginning with Warhammer: Day of the Daemon (2006); for the World of Warcraft universe (see Online Worlds), beginning with World of Warcraft: Tides of Darkness (New York: Pocket Star, 2007); and the ...
Garrison, Wendell Phillips
(1840-1907) US editor – he was co-founder of The Nation, and served as its literary editor from 1865 to 1906 – and author of The New Gulliver (1898), a sequel to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726; rev 1735), in which the Houyhnhnms are revisited, and Evolution discussed. Garrison was a popularizer of the works of Charles Darwin. [JC] see also: ...
Pfeffer, Susan Beth
(1948-2025) US author for children and the Young Adult market, prolifically from 1970, perhaps best known for the nonfantastic The Year Without Michael (1987). Of sf interest are two series. The VCR Time Travel sequence comprises Rewind to Yesterday (1988) and Future Forward (1989), whose young protagonists engage in generally lighthearted Time Travel, as enabled by their mysterious ...
Marvelman
UK reprints of the US character Captain Marvel published by L Miller were successful enough to warrant continued independent publication under a new name after the original character was deemed a copy of Superman and the courts forbade any further publication. The character was revised and changed just enough to avoid copyright issues, and re-dubbed Marvelman (346 issues, 1954-1963) in the process. Drawn by Mick ...
Schafer, Steve
(? - ) US author whose first novel, The Border (2017), is a non-fantastic Young-Adult thriller set along the Mexican-American border; he is of sf interest for his second novel, eMortal (2024), whose brilliant young-adult protagonist upcodes an AI-powered Android into something like Superman. He is also ...
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 ...