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Kotlan, C M
(? - ) US author, all of whose sf was written in collaboration with G C Edmondson, who see for details. [JC]
Ruben, William S
(? - ) US author known mainly for Weightless in Gaza (1970 as Fred Shannon; exp vt Dionysus: The Ultimate Experiment 1977), in which NASA conducts Sex experiments in space. Escape from the Holocaust (1975) is nonfiction dealing with the Final Solution. [JC]
Stone, Rodney
(1932- ) UK author, mostly of nonfantastic thrillers under his own name and as by Matthew Hunter. Of sf interest is The Cambridgeshire Disaster (1967) as by Hunter, featuring the Near Future destruction of that academic enclave; Cries in the Night (1991), in which the contemporary abduction of two children uncannily evokes events from World War Two, does not in fact trespass ...
Jensen, Norman
(1933- ) UK author of The Galactic Colonizers (1971), an sf adventure for Robert Hale Limited involving encounters with unusual Aliens. [JC]
New Genre
US Small Press Semiprozine, an annual Print Magazine which has seen seven issues since Spring 2000, published by New Genre Enterprises, Somerville, Massachusetts, edited by Adam Golaski, who for the first four issues used the byline Jeff Paris. A neatly packaged review-size Magazine, with no outward indication of its contents, and ...
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 ...