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Reeve, James Knapp

(1856-1933) US author of The Three Richard Whalens: A Story of Adventure (1897), a Lost Race tale, in which the third Whalen searches for the Caribbean Island where the first Whalen had made a mysterious discovery, two centuries earlier. [JC]

Ritt, William

(1901-1972) US cartoonist and author, whose best known Comic strip, Brick Bradford, is Space Opera (for details see entry on the strip). The strip's first two storylines were revised as two Big Little Books: Brick Bradford and the City Beneath the Sea (1933-1934 Brick Bradford; rev graph 1934) and ...

Koren, Brittiany A

(?   -    ) Editor of a number of Original Anthologies, always in collaboration with Martin H Greenberg. The first of these is Single White Vampire Seeks Same (anth 2001) with Greenberg, comprising Urban Fantasy tales [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] with a lonely-hearts classified ...

Morimi Tomihiko

(1979-    ) Writing name of a Japanese author whose work bridges many trends in Japan, including concentrations on studied, commodified "cute", contemporary romance, postmodernism (see Postmodernism and SF) and the Media Landscape. / A master's graduate in Agriculture from Kyōto University, Morimi was first published while still a student, and continues to draw ...

Fischer, Leonard

(?1903-?1974) Canadian author whose Let Out the Beast (1950) is a Post-Holocaust reversion-to-savagery tale in which it is the protagonist who – unusually – becomes the feared enemy of those engaged in trying to rebuild civilization. [JC]

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 ...



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