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Coover, Robert
(1932-2024) US author who established a considerable reputation with his novels, in which Fabulation and political scatology mix fruitfully. His work could be seen to represent a Postmodernist intensification of the same milieu excoriated by Richard Condon; at times both authors seem to be describing a nightmare dream of orgy-choked life in the Late Roman Empire (see ...
Wood, William
(? - ) UK author whose sf novel The News from Karachi (1962) posits a Near Future world afflicted by a rolling succession of plagues, perhaps triggered by uncontrolled testing of nuclear weapons (see Nuclear Energy; World War Three). Mutant fauna have been to proliferate. The Prime Minister of a pan-European ...
Guttenberg, Violet
(? -? ) UK author whose three novels focus on Jews in the modern world. Neither Jew Nor Greek: A Story of Jewish Social Life (1902) and The Power of the Palmist (1903) contain no fantastic elements; but A Modern Exodus (1904) is set in a Near Future Britain where Jews have been declared the equivalent of "aliens" (see Race in SF), lose all civil rights, and ...
Joyce, Graham
(1954-2014) UK author and from 1996 also a reader in and teacher of creative writing at Nottingham Trent University, Nottinghamshire. He began to publish work of genre interest with Dreamside (1991), in which four university students involved in an experimental study of lucid dreaming develop a shared hallucination or alternate reality known as Dreamside, which they reject after bad experiences but which returns to haunt them in later life; the effect is one of ...
Selected Science Fiction
Australian Digest-size magazine. Five slim (32pp saddle-stapled) monthly issues May-September 1955, published by Malian Press, Sydney; edited anonymously by James Mitchell. Selected Science Fiction, a companion to American Science Fiction Magazine, reprinted US material of quite good quality, including work by Philip K Dick, James Blish and ...
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 ...