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Palumbo, Suzan
(? - ) Trinidadian teacher and author, in Canada from before 2018, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Bloody Therapy" in Diabolical Plots for March 2017, releasing about half of this early output as Skin Thief (coll 2023). The protagonist of her first novel, Countess (2024), is a migrant from Earth to the Æcerbot Empire who skyhooks herself upwards in its military hierarchy through ability; that she ...
Gardner, Gilson
(1869-1935) US author of A New Robinson Crusoe: A New Version of his Life and Adventures, With an Explanatory Note (1920), an updating of various Robinsonade tropes; the protagonist is becomes a castaway due to a plane crash; there are hints of Inventions in the air, which edge the text into sf. [JC]
Dan, Uri
(1937-2006) Israeli photographer, journalist and author, long identified as an advocate of Ariel Sharon's understanding of the Middle East nightmare; his Ultimatum: Pu 94 (1977) with Peter Mann is a Technothriller set in his home territories. [JC]
Nadler, Stuart
(? - ) US author whose third novel, Rooms for Vanishing (2025), partially unpacks the complexities of grief and bereavement of a Jewish family, some of whom are Holocaust survivors (see Holocaust Fiction), through a central device from the megatext of Fantastika: the ghosts haunting various characters can be understood as figures of substantial being from more than one ...
Terminator, The
Film (1984). Cinema '84/Pacific Western/Orion. Produced by Gale Anne Hurd. Directed by James Cameron. Written by Cameron and Hurd. Cast includes Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger. 107 minutes. Colour. / In 2029 CE a vicious Future War between humans and Machines is raging. To ensure their victory, the machines send back 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 ...