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Forsyth, Frederick
(1938-2025) UK author who gained fame with his first novel, The Day of the Jackal (1971), and whose books are generally political thrillers. The Shepherd (1975 chap), however, is a sentimental Timeslip or ghost fantasy in which a pilot on Christmas Eve 1957 is saved from crashing by a World War Two pilot in an antique bomber: pilot and plane had been shot down on the Christmas Eve of 1943. ...
Ehrlich, Paul R
(1932- ) US academic and author of The Population Bomb (1968), an influential – though often described as alarmist – text which predicts Disaster as a result of Overpopulation. Various gloomy Predictions about damage to Ecology are fictionalized in his short "Eco-Catastrophe!" (September 1969 Ramparts). ...
Stavridis, Admiral James
(1955- ) US soldier (Supreme Allied Commander Europe 2009-2013) and author, whose Near Future Next World War sequence, beginning with 2034: A Novel of the Next World War (2021) with Elliot Ackerman, complexly narrates a naval War between America and China. The sequel, 2054 (2024) with Elliot Ackerman [who see ...
Bryce, Lloyd
(1851-1917) US politician, editor and author of a Future War Parody, A Dream of Conquest (June 1889 Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; 1890), which features a moderately spoofed Yellow Peril Invasion of Key West, which is virtually unmanned, and eventually New York, destroying the city. The it-was-all-a-dream conclusion of the ...
Ewers, Hanns Heinz
(1871-1943) German author, spy in Mexico and the USA in World War One, and early member of the Nazi Party, though he soon alienated its leaders through his insistence that his and their obsession with matters of Blood led inevitably (and properly) to psychic and literal vampirism (see Decadence; Vampires). Supermen predominate in his fiction, ...
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 ...