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Jantunen, John
(1971- ) Canadian author whose first novels, beginning with fallingoverstandingstill (2013), are nonfantastic, as is his thriller sequence, the Tilden Chronicles, beginning with No Quarter (2018) [nonfantastic titles are not listed below]. His first book of sf interest, A Desolate Splendor (2016), is set along the northern wilderness edge of a Ruined Earth land, seemingly after ...
Captain Aero Comics
US Comic (1941-1946). Temerson / Helnit / Continental. 14 issues (numbered #1, #11-#17, #21-#26). Artists include Nina Albright, L B Cole, Carmine Infantino, Rudy Palais, Charles Quinlan Sr and (for a non-genre cover and story) Alex Schomburg. Scriptwriters include Allen Ulmer and Bill Woolfolk. Initially 68 pages, declining to 52; usually with 7-8 long strips and a short text story each issue, plus occasional short pieces as ...
Lester, Colin
(? - ) UK editor and critic who began to publish work of genre interest with a review in Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction #10 for June 1976; he coedited the Forum feature in the next issue, #11/#12 dated March 1977. He is of greatest sf interest for the ambitious but short-lived project The International Science Fiction Yearbook, intended as an annual summation of the sf genre ...
Suddain, M
(? - ) New Zealand journalist, playwright and author, in London from 2008, whose first novel, Theatre of the Gods [for subtitle see Checklist below] (2013), describes in a goofish gonzo idiom, complete with author's and editor's notes and obfuscations, its protagonist's Fantastic Voyage into other Dimensions, with a crew of children helping operate his ...
Juvenile Series
When dime novels (see Dime-Novel SF) declined and disappeared in the 1900s – partly because of public outcry against their supposed evil effect on boys, and partly because of increasing competition from the Pulp magazines, which had become comparable in price – the torch of juvenile sf was taken up by a new format, illustrated hardcover juvenile book series, and the ideas in these began to range more widely. The ...
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 ...