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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 ...
Barber, Griffin
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with 1636: Mission to the Mughals (2017) with Eric Flint, a novel set in the shared world of Flint's Assiti Shards: 1632 alternate history sequence; Barber and Flint also collaborated on the later series title 1637: The Peacock Throne (2021). Other works include the noir Space Opera ...
Grossman, Austin
(1969- ) US author and Videogame designer whose debut sf novel is the Comics-based Parody Soon I Will Be Invincible (2007), told in alternating sections from the viewpoints of Mad Scientist Supervillain Dr Impossible and a Cyborg superheroine. The lively narrative, set in an ...
Trench, Melesina
(1768-1827) Irish author, born Melesina Chevenix; she used her married name for all her writings. She is of sf interest for a Proto SF Fantastic Voyage in verse, Laura's Dream; Or, the Moonlanders (1816 chap), whose narrator travels to the Moon in a dream, an expedient perhaps specifically modeled on Johannes Kepler's Somnium (1634), a ...
Lott, Tim
(1956- ) UK memoirist and author of a Young Adult sf novel, Fearless (2007), set in a Near Future Dystopian Britain and tracing the rebellion of a girl, one of a thousand incarcerated within the sweatshop-like City Community Faith School, though her description of her ordeal is disbelieved in the corroded world outside the walls. [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 ...