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Wallis, George C
(1871-1956) UK printer (before World War One), cinema manager and author who began writing sf and historical and adventure fiction in 1895 for the penny weekly adult magazines, the first of these apparently being a serial, "Behind the Barrier: A Story of Mystery and Peril in the Antarctic Regions" in Pearson's Storyteller for 12 October 1895/concluding issue not known; around the turn of the century, he was writing for Slick journals, but around 1903 he began ...
Anonymous
This entry records those relatively few Anonymous SF Authors who did not use a pseudonym and whose identity has never been established. The ordering below is first chronological by year of first publication, then alphabetical by title. / 1. Unidentified author of A Voyage to the World in the Centre of the Earth (1755) [for full title see Checklist directly below], a Proto SF tale which describes a ...
Lott, Tim
(1956- ) UK memoirist and author of a Young Adult sf novel, Fearless (2007), set in a Near Future Dystopian Britain and tracing the rebellion of a girl, one of a thousand incarcerated within the sweatshop-like City Community Faith School, though her description of her ordeal is disbelieved in the corroded world outside the walls. [JC]
Halacy, D S, Jr
(1919-2002) US author, mostly of nonfiction studies in science and Futures Studies [see Checklist for selected titles]; of direct sf interest are Rocket Rescue (1968), an adventure in Near Future Space Flight, and Return from Luna (1969), which adds a Future War to the mix. [JC]
Fukuda Tsuneari
(1912-1994) Japanese critic and playwright, largely known in his home country as the translator of G K Chesterton, Ernest Hemingway and William Shakespeare. Along with Tetsuo Arakawa, he was the producer/director of the stage play Star (1975), written by Yasutaka Tsutsui and deemed of sufficient genre content to win the following year's ...
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 ...