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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Jeter, K W
(1950- ) US author of importance as an author of horror novels, the highly charged claustrophobia of his style fitting the essential affect of that genre rather better than it does sf. His early work, generally conceived in sf terms, gives off an air of hectic congestion which sometimes interferes with the presentation of ideas, with the cognitively unencumbered articulation of some barrier through which the story (and its protagonists) penetrate; for him, as for most ...
Stephens, Ann Sophia
(1810-1886) American author, who sometimes wrote as Mrs Ann S Stephens, and whose Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter (February-April 1839 Ladies' Companion; 1860), was Number One in the Beadle's Dime Novels series, and was therefore the first dime novel (see Dime Novel SF). Also printed in that series, Mahaska: The Indian Princess: A Tale of the Six Nations (1863) and its sequel The Indian Queen ...
Stories of Girls Who Couldn't Be Magicians, The
Japanese animated tv series (2024; original title Mahō Tsukai ni Narenakatta Onna no Ko no Hanashi). J.C. Staff. Directed by Takashi Watanabe and Masato Matsune. Written by Hiroko Kanasugi. Based on the web novel by Yuzuki Akasaka. Voice cast includes Hana Hishikawa, Yui Horie, Hikaru Midorikawa, Mako Morino and Misuzu Yamada. Twelve 24-minute episodes. Colour. / As a child Kurumi Mirai (Hishikawa) is unhappy that she cannot perform ...
Clink, Carolyn
(1958- ) Canadian poet and editor, married to Robert J Sawyer, who began to publish Poetry with the competition prize-winner "Father's Day" in Poetry Toronto for 1982; this is included in her first verse collection Much Slower Than Light (coll 1998 chap; rev 2014). With Sawyer she edited Tesseracts6 (anth 1997), a volume in the Canadian ...
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 ...