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Dukaj, Jacek
(1974- ) Polish Fantastika writer and publicist, widely regarded as the leading figure in contemporary Polish sf and the successor to Stanisław Lem. He made his literary debut at sixteen with the short story "Złota galera" (February 1990 Fantastyka; trans Wiesiek Powaga as "The Golden Galley" in The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy, ...
Lichtenberger, André
(1870-1940) French editor, politician and author. Of his several works of fantasy or sf, Les Centaures, roman fantastique (Paris: Calman-Lévy, 1904) and Pickles, ou récits à la mode anglaise ["Pickles; Or, Stories in the English Style"] (coll 1923), have been assembled as The Centaurs and Other Stories (omni trans Brian Stableford 2013). The title novel is a prehistoric fantasy about the ...
Dahlberg, Edward
(1900-1977) US author, in active service during World War One; most famous for his first book, Bottom Dogs (1929), whose transgressive frankness about modern life from below set his reputation as an advocate of the rights of the working class. His later work, though he made no convulsive Turn to the Right, became sufficiently acceptable for him to be given a Guggenheim Award in 1976. He is of some sf interest for Those Who Perish ...
Wright, Alexis
(1950- ) Australian author, a member of the indigenous Waanyi nation whose homeland stretches along the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia; she has been associated for many years with various campaigns advocating the rights of Aboriginals. Her first two novels, Plains of Promise (1997) and Carpentaria (2006), both acutely but compassionately polemical, address her people and the life that has been imposed upon them. Though technically ...
Dowding, Henry Wallace
(1867-1938) UK-born clergyman and author, in the US from 1889, most active in the 1920s. His sf novel, The Man from Mars, or Service, for Service's Sake (1910), is occupied for much of its length with its protagonist's search for a McGuffin document, but shifts in its later moments to be a long description, on the part of the protagonist's employer, of his time on Mars, which planet is small, quite close to Earth, and ...
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 ...