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Roberts, Tansy Rayner
(1978- ) Australian fan (see Fandom) and Fanzine writer, and author, winning Hugo awards in 2013 and 2015 for her fan accomplishments; her fiction is almost exclusively fantasy [not listed below]. Of sf interest is the Young Adult Musketeer Space (2017), a Space Opera specifically ...
Hunting, Gardner
(1872-1958) US author, often for Young Adult readers, whose sf novel The Vicarion (1926; exp 1927) features the Vicarion, a Time Viewer directed toward the past, which plays back the permanent record of what has been. As a consequence, murders can be solved, politics cleaned up and the true events of history understood at last. [JC] see also: Machines. /
Shea, Michael [2]
(1946-2014) US author, mostly of Fantasy; most of his few sf stories focus on Horror in SF motifs extracted directly from the work of H P Lovecraft, as in The Color Out of Time (1984), a sequel to Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space (September 1927 Amazing; 1982 chap) (see Sequels by Other Hands), ...
Conde, Víctor
(1973- ) Pseudonym of author Alfredo Moreno Santana, one of the most prolific sf, fantasy, horror and Young Adult writers in Spain. He has published more than thirty novels, one collection and almost a hundred of short stories, plus half a dozen mainstream books, all this in just over twenty years. His contributions to Spanish and Latin American sf magazines and anthologies number about one hundred. / Conde ...
Haars, Peter
(1940-2005) Norwegian/German graphic designer and author. Immigrating to Norway in 1962, he created poster artwork for Det norske teatret ["The Norwegian Theatre"] and turned to books in the mid-1960s. Advocating book covers as a particular form of art, he designed more than 300 books for Pax Forlag and Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, including the spectacular covers for Gyldendal's Lanterne Science Fiction series. He made the scenography ...
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 ...