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Teasdale, Sara
(1884-1933) US poet, almost all of whose deeply felt though formally demure Poetry lies beyond the water margins of Fantastika. She is of sf interest almost exclusively for the vision of Pastoral Post-Holocaust quietude that drives "There Will Come Soft Rains" (July 1918 Harper's Magazine), so unmistakable a vision of the ...
Kossakowska, Maja Lidia
(1972-2022) Polish author, poet, and painter, married to Jarosław Grzędowicz. Her Fantastika ranges across Fantasy, Horror and sf, though she was best known for the subgenre of angel fantasy. Her output includes over a dozen novels and several short story collections. Her promising career – she was called "the First ...
Spook Louder
Short US film (1943). Columbia Pictures. Directed by Del Lord. Written by Clyde Bruckman. Cast includes Stanley Blystone, Symona Boniface (uncredited), Stanley Brown (uncredited), Heinie Conklin (uncredited), Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Moe Howard, William Kelley (uncredited), Lew Kelly, Theodore Lorch (uncredited), Charles Middleton (uncredited), Shirley Patterson and Helen Servis (uncredited). 17 minutes. Black and white. / In the frame story, "investigator" Dunkfeather (Kelly) ...
Booth, Naomi
(? - ) UK academic and author whose first work of fiction, The Lost Art of Sinking (2015), which is nonfantastic, dramatizes her interest as a critical analysis of literary swooning. In her first novel, Sealed (2017), a Near Future acceleration of Climate Change in Australia is further intensified through the effects of a deadly ...
Sokołowski, Krzysztof
(1957- ) Polish critic, translator and editor, author of the Poland entry in the 1993 edition of this encyclopedia. A graduate of Warsaw University, Sokołowski is well known for his critical pieces on US-UK sf in the magazine Fantastyka. Since its foundation in 1990 until it ceased in 2001 he was editor of Fenix, the first professional science fiction and ...
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 ...