SF Encyclopedia Home Page
Wednesday 9 July 2025
Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Fourth Edition. Some sample entries appear below. Click here for the Introduction; here for what we mean by Science Fiction; here for the masthead; here for some Statistics; here for the Acknowledgments; here for the FAQ; here for advice on citations. Find entries via the search box above (more details here) or browse the menu categories in the grey bar at the top of this page.
Site updated on 7 July 2025
Sponsor of the day: Andy Richards of Cold Tonnage Books
Starship
In sf Terminology, a ship capable of travel between the stars – one of the many sf neologisms which have passed into the language. Various aspects of such ships are discussed under Faster Than Light; Generation Starships; Spaceships; Suspended Animation; World Ships. [PN]
Carlton, Clark Thomas
(? - ) US singer/songwriter, playwright, screenwriter and author who is of sf interest for the Antasy sequence of Science Fantasy novels beginning with Prophets of the Ghost Ants (2011; rev 2017), set in a Far Future Planetary-Romance version of Earth called Dranveria, where homo sapiens has suffered ...
Turner, Joan Frances
(? - ) US author, possibly pseudonymous, of the Young Adult Resurgam Trilogy beginning with Dust (2010) involving the tense and complicated relationships between norman humans and Zombies. The tale is mostly told from the viewpoint of the latter cohort. [JC]
Cohen, Douglas
(? - ) US editor, editorial consultant and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Feelings of the Flesh" for Interzone in September/October 2007. From 2005 he occupied various editorial positions at Realms of Fantasy, his final role being that of principal editor from November 2009 until the magazine ceased in October 2011; he wrote about this experience in ...
Raspe, Rudolf Erich
(1737-1794) German-born propagandist, amateur geologist, cataloguer, flim-flam artist, translator and author, in the UK from 1775. His career was harum-scarum; though he edited the posthumous papers of Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716) as Oeuvres philosophiques latines et francoises de feu Mr de Leibniz (1765), and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1769, he was more than once in deep financial trouble (the Royal Society ejected him in 1775) and narrowly escaped ...
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 ...