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Savage, Hardley

(? - ) US author, whose name seems pseudonymous, of a Sex novel with sf elements, Jetman Meets the Mad Madam (1966), which attempts a spoofish attitude. [JC]

(1975- ) US author, of considerable significance for his Heroic Fantasies [for this term and for Robert Jordan see also The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below], coming to wide notice with his continuations of Jordan's Wheel of Time sequence and his own Mistborn sequence [neither listed below]. Of sf interest is the ...

Munsey, Frank A

(1854-1925) US newspaper and magazine publisher and author. He began publishing in 1882 with The Golden Argosy, a weekly Boys' Paper, later transformed into The Argosy. Munsey expanded his titles to include Munsey's Magazine, The Scrap Book, The All-Story, Cavalier ...

Service, Robert W

(1874-1958) UK-born poet and author, in Canada (mostly in the Yukon Territory) between 1896 and 1912, where much of his exceedingly popular verse was set, the most famous of his collections being Songs of a Sourdough (coll 1907) and Rhymes of a Rolling Stone (coll 1912); the not entirely fortunate influence of his poetry – when read aloud, as usual – can still be registered in the sf Poetry of a century later. After 1912, ...

Kelleghan, Fiona

(1965- ) US academic whose birth name was Ellen Feehan. She worked as a tenured professor and librarian at the University of Miami until her retirement in 2011, and was in a long-term relationship with sf author Tim Sullivan which ended in 2018. She published one genre story – "The Secret in the Chest" in Realms of Fantasy for October 1998 – and edited the sf reprint ...

Nicholls, Peter

(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book ...