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Moore, Chris

(1947-2025) Prolific UK artist, known to the public primarily for his hard-edged treatment of Hard SF subjects, although in fact he produced covers in different styles for all sorts of other genres as well, including illustrations of record sleeves for artists as diverse as Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo and Pentangle. What impressed most about Moore's sf art was not just the photographic realism but the sense of scale, achieved largely through a ...

Narayan, R K

(1906-2001) Working name of Indian author Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami, noted for realistic novels about everyday life in southern India. He is of mild sf interest because a subplot of his novel The Vendor of Sweets (1967) involves a proposal to construct a Machine to write novels (see Wordmills). [GW]

Bahnson, Agnew H, Jr

(1915-1964) US author, textile-machinery manufacturer and speculative thinker much involved in problems of Gravity; fittingly, his Near-Future political thriller, The Stars Are too High (1959), features a Scientific Hoax in which fake Aliens with a real gravity-driven ship try to bring peace to the world. After his death in a plane crash, the University of ...

Glenn, Joshua

(1967-    ) US editor, publisher and essayist, founder-editor of the journal Hermenaut (1992-2001), and responsible for the creation (solo or in collaboration) of several websites, including Significant Objects, Hermenaut and HiLoBrow. Through the latter site, he edited an initial iteration of the Radium Age series of reprints of sf titles – at least ten all told, most of them Scientific Romances ...

Rutledge, Maryse

Working name of US author Marie Rutledge Gibson Hale (1884-?   ), active from around 1910; in her sf novel, The Silver Peril (1931), a Russian super-criminal attempts to dominate the world by using his super-helicopter (see Airships) to enable him to decimate the population of Bucharest with his Death Ray. In the end, hampered by megalomania, the Villain blows himself up along ...

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 ...



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