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Hale, Benjamin
(1983- ) US author whose first novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (2011), casually addresses issues of Evolution, though the first person narrator of the tale, an implausibly evolved chimpanzee (see Apes as Human), after describing his early years in a Zoo focuses primarily on the nature of language (see Linguistics) and ...
Fergus, Dyjan
Pseudonym used by Canadian bookkeeper and chemist Ida May Ferguson (1871-1899) – whose married name from 1898 was Thompson – for her only novel, Tisab Ting; or, The Electrical Kiss (1896). This tale, one of the earliest Canadian sf novels and apparently the first by a Canadian woman, is set a century in the future of its time of writing, and tells of a man from newly powerful China who comes to Canada in hopes of marrying the daughter of his ...
Gordon, Ariel
(? - ) Canadian poet and author of a Young Adult sf novel, Blood Letters (2025) with G M B Chomichuk (for details see that entry). [JC] Ariel Gordon born Winnipeg, Manitoba / Blood Letters (Winnipeg, Manitoba: ...
James, Dakota
Pseudonym used for his fiction by US academic Bernard Joseph James (1922-2010), whose sf novels Greenhouse: It Will Happen in 1997 (1984) and its sequel, Milwaukee the Beautiful (1987), are set in a Near Future Wisconsin gradually isolated from the rest of a balkanized America by the greenhouse effect (see Climate Change). In the first James riskily assumes that the effect will be gravely ...
Weird Chills
US Comic (1954). Stanley P Morse. 3 issues. Artists include Bernard Baily and Eugene Hughes. Script writers include Bruce Hamilton. 36 pages per issue, with 4-5 long strips and (in #1 and #3 at least) a short text story. Save for the cover, #2 was not seen for this entry. / With the creation of the Comics Code Authority that year – responding to the moral panic inspired by Fredric Wertham – 1954 was not the best time to publish a new ...
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 ...