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White, Jay C
Probable pseudonym of an unidentified US author (? - ) whose sf novel is A Cup of Life (1962). [JC/DRL]
Smith, Ben
(? - ) UK author whose first novel, Doggerland (2019) takes its title from the landmass that connected the UK to Europe before around 6000 BCE, and which is permeated throughout by a chthonic saudade about a world Under the Sea that remains somehow whole (though unobtainable): the sea, in the Near Future world of Doggerland's main narrative, has suffered irretrievable ...
Morgan, Dan
(1925-2011) UK poet, author and professional guitarist, about which instrument he wrote two successful manuals, Guitar (1965) and Spanish Guitar (1982). He began publishing sf with "Alien Analysis" in New Worlds for January 1952. His first sf novels, Cee-Tee Man (1955) and The Uninhibited (August-October 1957 New Worlds as "Uninhibited"; 1961), were routine adventures, but ...
Lester, Edward
(1831-1905) UK clergyman and author in whose The Siege of Bodike: A Prophecy of Ireland's Future (1886) the Near Future separation of Ireland from the ruling UK is prevented in large part by the anti-Catholic narrator, in a Balloon; and the landlords return. [JC]
Ramseyer, Edwin
(1896-1979) Swiss author whose Airmen Over the Suburb (trans Nora Bickley from manuscript 1939) is a Future War novel in which Paris is attacked from the air. [JC]
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...