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Coover, Robert
(1932-2024) US author who established a considerable reputation with his novels, in which Fabulation and political scatology mix fruitfully. His work could be seen to represent a Postmodernist intensification of the same milieu excoriated by Richard Condon; at times both authors seem to be describing a nightmare dream of orgy-choked life in the Late Roman Empire (see ...
Animatrix, The
Cycle of nine short Anime films (2003) by a variety of hands and studios under the Warner Brothers/Village Roadshow production umbrella, expanding the world of The Matrix (1999) as a novel experiment in Shared-World cinema. Two films, Kid and Final Flight of the Osiris, serve as direct prequels to The Matrix Reloaded ...
Xongo-Tee-Foh-Tchi
Pseudonym of the unidentified UK author (? -? ) of Napoleon in the Other World: A Narrative Written by Himself: And Found near his Tomb in the Island of St Helena, by Xongo-Tee-Foh-Tchi, Mandarin of the Third Class (1827), in which, three years after his apparent death, the eminent Mandarin Xongo-Tee-Foh-Tchi discovers a manuscript written by Napoleon describing his posthumous spirit journey into space, where Hell, a planet located about eighteen ...
Clarke, Frances H
(? -? ) US author of a Utopia, The Co-opolitan: A Story of the Co-operative Commonwealth of Idaho (1898) as by Zebina Forbush, in which a communitarian settlement, where women are effectively equal with men, is established by 1917. There is apparently no connection between her and Francis H Clarke. [JC]
Deese, Isadora
(? - ) US author whose Young Adult Roan and Judge Gorey sequence beginning with Right of Capture (2016) is set in a Near Future world transmogrified – and our reality opened to other Dimensions – by a mysterious Power Source seemingly embedded, perhaps as a result of ...
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 ...