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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing more than 180 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Pugner, Carol
(1943- ) US editor and reviewer whose only sf-related book is the reprint Anthology A Science Fiction Reader (anth 1973) edited with Harry Harrison. This assembles fourteen stories, most of them much-reprinted favourites, by Brian W Aldiss, Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, James ...
Dalek I Love You
Shortlived UK electropop band, formed by David Balfe (1958- ) and Alan Gill (?1958- ). The group's peculiar name was a compromise between Balfe's desire to name the band "Dalek" after the Doctor Who villains (see Daleks) and Gill's preference for "Darling I Love You". Their debut album Compass Kumpass (1980) includes an oblique celebration of the Doctor Who universe, "Destiny ...
Bolander, Brooke
(? - ) US author who has also written as by RoboNinja, and who began to release work of genre interest with "Trickster Blues" in Reflection's Edge for October 2008. Much of her fiction – directly or indirectly, through a range of "animal" protagonists and characters – challenges the Homo sapiens presumption that not only do we rule planet Earth but that we are the only actors in the world. Her first book-length work, the ...
Roberts, Robin
(1957- ) US academic – professor emeritus of English and gender studies at the University of Arkansas – who began to publish work of genre interest with an essay on Doris Lessing, "The Paradigm of Frankenstein: Reading Canopus in Argos in the Context of Science Fiction by Women" in Extrapolation for Spring 1995. She also contributed a number of book reviews to ...
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 ...