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Pyramid Books
US paperback publishing company founded in 1949 by Almat Magazine Publishers. In its early years it specialized in "racy" novels and Westerns, but it soon began to publish sf, beginning with a reprint of Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1956; vt Tomorrow's World 1956) by Evan Hunter writing as Hunt Collins. Its early offerings were divided between original work and reprints (the latter often with sensational titles ...
Channing, Mark
Pseudonym of Leopold Aloysius M Jones (1879-1943), UK soldier who spent twenty years in India in that capacity, and author most active in the 1930s. His only subject – including at least one study of Indian philosophy – is India and Tibet, and includes at least one non-fantastic novel, The Sacred Falls: A Novel of India (1939). He is of sf interest for his Colin Gray sequence – comprising King Cobra (1933), ...
Lewis, Oscar
(1893-1992) US editor and author active from 1912 as an author of magazine stories for boys; not to be confused with the anthropologist Oscar Lewis (1914-1970). His Alternate-History novel, The Lost Years: A Biographical Fantasy (1951), depicts through the recorded reactions of contemporaries the last years of Abraham Lincoln in a world where he was never assassinated. [JC]
Turtledove, Harry
(1949- ) US author and academic who has made use of his field of scholarship (his PhD was in Byzantine history) to create all his best-known work, including several associational historical novels as by H N Turteltaub. The fantasy Videssos Cycle – The Misplaced Legion (1987), An Emperor for the Legion (1987), The Legion of Videssos (1987) and Swords of the Legion (1987), with the Krispos sequence, ...
Zweig, Stefan
(1881-1942) Austrian biographer, journalist, playwright and author whose interbellum reputation is now unfairly faded; his Suicide (along with his wife's), which occurred when they both had begun to think World War Two would be won by the Allies, has been treated in hindsight as a sign of misplaced despair rather than – as clearly demonstrated in Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink (coll trans from various ...
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 ...