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Kuprin, Alexander
(1870-1938) Russian author, active from before 1890, whose first novella of significance, "Moloch" (December 1896 Russkoye Bogatstvo), goes to extremities akin to Fantastika in its attempts to render the terror and disastrousness of unfettered capitalist exploitation. Most of his remaining oeuvre is nonfantastic, though some sf is assembled in a French translation, Le soleil liquide et autres récits fantastiques ...
Miller, Eugenia
(1916-2012) US journalist and author of Young Adult novels; the young protagonist of The Sign of the Salamander (1967) enters a portal in France and Timeslips to sixteenth-century France, where he meets Leonardo da Vinci. [JC]
Beaujon, Paul
Pseudonym of US author and typographer Beatrice Lamberton Warde (1900-1969), in UK from 1925; famous for This Is a Printing Office (1932 broadsheet) under her own name, designed to promote the Perpetua typeface. Her sf novella, The Shelter in Bedlem (1937 chap; rev vt Peace Under Earth: Dialogues from the Year 1946 1938 chap), expresses a grim view of the Dystopia which would follow the end of the ...
Calhoun, Kenneth
(? - ) US academic and author whose first novel, Black Moon (2014), combines, with some Equipoisal grasp, a Near Future Zombie apocalypse setting in an afflicted America, with an almost metafictional contemplation of the effects of sleep deprivation on human beings. The protagonist – one of the few who retains the capacity to sleep after an event ...
Tops in Science Fiction
US reprint magazine. Two issues, Spring 1953 (standard Pulp size) and Fall 1953 (Digest size). Published by Love Romances, New York; edited by Jack O'Sullivan (#1) and Malcolm Reiss (#2). Tops in Science Fiction featured stories which had first appeared in Planet Stories. Contributors included such Planet Stories regulars as Leigh Brackett and Ray ...
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 ...