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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 ...
Bramson, Karen
(1875-1936) Danish playwright and author, in France from about 1914; she is of some sf interest for Dr Morel (1906; trans David Stanley Adler as The Case of Dr Morel 1926), a Feminist involving the very Near Future machinations of the eponymous physician, who commits euthanasia on women he deems unsuitable, in particular a young woman he deems oversensitized by her creative ability. [JC]
Frost, Gregory
(1951- ) US author who has been heavily involved in writers' workshops including Clarion and who began publishing sf with "In the Sunken Museum" for Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981; most of his work for a decade was governed by its fantasy tone, including his first novel, Lyrec (1984), which does evoke ...
Nelson, Arthur A
(1875-1917) US salesman, advertising manager (of the Royal Typewriter Company) and author of some Pulp-magazine fiction; born Alfred Arthur Nelson, he reversed his given names for his writing work. He is of greatest sf interest for his Lost Race novel, Wings of Danger (January-April 1915 Adventure as "The Adventurers"; 1915), featuring an ancient Norse land called Valkyria within a ...
Carol and the End of the World
US animated tv series (2024). Netflix Animation. Created by Dan Guterman. Directed by Erica Hayes, Mollie Helms and Bert Youn. Written by Kevin Arrieta, Dan Guterman and Noah Prestwich. Voice cast includes Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Martha Kelly and Mel Rodriguez. Ten 25-35 minute episodes. Colour. / In 2002 (see Alternate History) the planet Keppler 9C (there is an exoplanet of this name) is heading towards the Earth and will collide in a ...
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 ...