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Stoddard, William O
(1835-1925) US editor, government official, inventor and author, Abraham Lincoln's Assistant Private Secretary 1861-1864, resigning for health reasons which also truncated his slightly later career as a United States Marshall in Arkansas. His patents were in the field of publishing. He began to publish fiction in 1869, producing in the end more than 100 volumes, mostly for young readers. Those of sf interest include two Lost Race novels: ...
Rip Hunter, Time Master
A DC Comics Superhero, created by Jack Miller and Ruben Moreira in 1959; after appearances in Showcase, he graduated to his own title, which lasted from 1961 to 1965. He is a Scientist who invents a time-traveling vehicle, the Time Sphere (see Time Travel), and with three colleagues – Jeff Smith, Bonnie Baxter, and Corky Baxter – he made regular ...
Reyes, Dolores
(1978- ) Argentinian teacher and author whose first novel, Cometierra (2019; trans by Julia Sanchez as Eartheater 2020), demonstrates what to the anglophone commentariat might seem a fruitful juxtaposition of modes of contemporary Fantastika, but which, within a nest of modes not pendant upon English-language conventions (see Genre SF; ...
Klune, TJ
(1982- ) US author, most of whose Young Adult fiction has focused on gay and LGBTQ issues; of these, the best known is probably The House in the Cerulean Sea (2020), a complex fantasy set partly on an Island inhabited by childhood imagos of various creatures of legend (see Mythology; Supernatural Creatures); the protagonist ...
Raymond, Alex
(1909-1956) US Comic-strip artist. As Jane Frank aptly notes, he is "one of the most famous science fiction artists of all time, although he never contributed an illustration to any science fiction magazine or book", earning that status for his decade of drawing the comic strip Flash Gordon. / Raymond received his artistic training at the Grand Central School of Art in New York City and began his career by working as an assistant ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...