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Santesson, Hans Stefan
(1914-1975) US editor and author born in France of Swedish parents, raised in Sweden and emigrated with his mother to the USA in 1923 after his parents divorced. They settled in Brooklyn where his mother worked as a commercial artist. Before entering the world of publishing Santesson devoted much of his time helping immigrants to America, especially from India. He was noted for his humanitarianism and this was reflected in his work as an editor with a selfless dedication to helping others. His ...
Cline, Leonard
(1893-1929) US author most remembered for his sf-tinged Horror novel, The Dark Chamber (1927). Initially a journalist, he won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles about the Ku Klux Klan for the Baltimore Sun. His first book, Poems (coll 1914), was followed by two mainstream novels, the dark God Head (1925), which makes use of legends from the Kalevala, and the light-hearted Listen, Moon ...
Wilson, Steve
(1943- ) US author who published non-sf short fiction and three biker thrillers before the appearance of The Lost Traveller: A Motorcycle Grail Quest and Science Fiction Western (1976) – not to be confused with Ruthven Todd's The Lost Traveller (1943). Wilson's version, set in a desolate Post-Holocaust venue at century's end, extols the survival capacity of a ...
Kamarck, Lawrence
(1927-2001) US author who specialized in detective fiction; his sf novel, The Zinsser Implant (1979), is a Near Future sf thriller involving Identity Transfer by biochemical means, and a conspiracy to gain effective Immortality for a few through control of the technique. [JC]
Mackey, Douglas A
(1947- ) US author and critic with a 1975 PhD in English from the University of Kansas, who began to publish reviews of genre interest in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review for February 1979. His book-length sf critical studies are The Rainbow Quest of Thomas Pynchon (1980), on Thomas Pynchon; Philip K. Dick (1988), on Philip K ...
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 ...