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Forsyth, Frederick
(1938-2025) UK author who gained fame with his first novel, The Day of the Jackal (1971), and whose books are generally political thrillers. The Shepherd (1975 chap), however, is a sentimental Timeslip or ghost fantasy in which a pilot on Christmas Eve 1957 is saved from crashing by a World War Two pilot in an antique bomber: pilot and plane had been shot down on the Christmas Eve of 1943. ...
Underwood, Tim
(1948- ) US publisher (see Underwood-Miller Inc), bibliographer of Jack Vance in Fantasy and Science Fiction by Jack Vance (1977 chap) with Chuck Miller and Fantasms: A Bibliography of the Literature of Jack Vance (1978 chap with Daniel J H Levack; rev vt ...
Dynamic Science Stories
US Pulp magazine, a short-lived companion to Marvel Science Stories. 2 issues, February 1939 and April/May 1939, published by Western Fiction Publishing Corporation; edited by Robert O Erisman (1908-1995). The first issue featured the novel Lord of Tranerica (February 1939; 1966) by Stanton A Coblentz; the second issue included stories by L Sprague ...
Postscripts
UK Print Magazine and Semiprozine published in review-size by PS Publishing, Yorkshire, and edited by Peter Crowther assisted by Nick Gevers, with Gevers becoming the primary editor from issue #11 (Summer 2007). Since issue #18 (Spring 2009) it has treated itself as an Anthology series, rather than a magazine, though it has ...
Joseph, M K
(1914-1981) UK-born poet, author and professor of English, in New Zealand from 1924; his first novels were not sf. The Hole in the Zero (1967) begins as an apparently typical Space-Opera adventure into further dimensions at the edge of the Universe, but quickly reveals itself as a linguistically brilliant, complex exploration of the nature of the four personalities involved as they begin out of their own resources to shape the low-probability ...
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 ...