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Armstrong, Kelley
(1968- ) Canadian author, whose many fantasy novels, usually published in series, and often with a romance timbre, are not listed below. She is of sf interest for the Rip Through Time sequence beginning with A Rip Through Time (2022), whose protagonist finds herself via Timeslip in various predicaments, housed in various bodies, in various eras. Some echoes of Marghanita ...
Miller, Sam J
(1979- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Haunting Your House" in The Red Volume: An Anthology of Stories by the Awkward Robots (anth 2008 ebook) edited by The Awkward Robots, most of his early work being fantasy or horror, though his first novel, the Young Adult The Art of Starving (2017), Equipoisally offers hints as well of an sf explanation for the ...
Brack, Vektis
A House Name used on three sf novels for Gannet Press of London in the early 1950s. The author or authors responsible for the first two are not identified: The "X" People (1953), which concerns an Alien Invasion, and Castaway from Space (1953), about an alien crashlanding, are both unremarkable; as is Odyssey in Space (1953), which concerns ...
Vornholt, John
(1951- ) US author who has also written as by Carolyn Goode, known chiefly for Ties: these include a long string of Star Trek: The Next Generation novels beginning with Masks (1989) and ending with A Time to Die (2004), plus other novels in the overall Star Trek universe; and the Babylon 5 novel ...
Bowering, George
(1935- ) Canadian poet, teacher and author, appointed in 2002 as the first Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada. Of his 80 or so volumes, of sf interest is the Young Adult series comprising Parents from Space (1994) and Diamondback Dog (1999), which comically involves adolescent siblings with Aliens who claim to be their (as it were, additional) parents. [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 ...