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Carhart, Arthur Hawthorne
(1892-1978) US conservationist in government service and author, of mild interest under his own name for The Last Stand of the Pack (1929), a set of animal stories [for Animal Fantasy see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. Of more direct sf interest is The Wrong Body (1937) as by V A Van Sickle, in which a medical experiment causes Identity Exchange ...
Ditmar Award
The Australian SF Awards, familiarly known as the Ditmars, were first given in 1969 and are presented in various categories for sf, fantasy and horror-related work by Australians. The name comes from the long-time Australian fan and artist "Dick" Jenssen, whose full name is Martin James Ditmar Jenssen and who won the award in fan artist categories in 2002 and 2010. Voting resembles the system used for the Hugos but is associated with membership of the annual Australian ...
Cyborgs
The term "cyborg" is a contraction of "cybernetic organism" and refers to the product of human/machine hybridization. It was coined by Manfred E Clynes and Nathan S Kline in their article "Cyborgs in Space" (September 1960 Astronautics p26), which proposed "Altering man's bodily functions to meet the requirements of extraterrestrial environments". Early sf uses of the term appear in the Comic Space Man (1962) and Frank ...
Tannehill, Jayne
Working name of US author Jayne Tannehill Englehart (? - ), partner of Theodore Sturgeon 1976-1985; she began to publish work of genre interest with "Eclipse of the Son" in Chrysalis 2 (anth 1978) edited by Roy Torgeson. Her sf novel, V: The Oregon Invasion (1988), is a competent Tie set in the "V" universe, ...
Jackson, Stuart
(? -2006) UK teacher and author, whose Tracer (1990) depicts a Near Future Britain whose government jails AIDS victims. [JC]
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 ...