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Reitmeister, Louis Aaron
(1903-1975) US author of If Tomorrow Comes (1934), a Utopia in which an Alien from another planet, given a tour by two humans, one of whom constantly deprecates Earthly civilization; the alien in turn extols life on the planet Jedelar, whose inhabitants are unfailingly rational, needing no government to keep them in check. [JC]
Scheherazade
UK small-press Semiprozine, 1991-2008, produced from Brighton by Elizabeth Counihan, editor, and Deirdre Counihan, art editor (later co-editor); 30 undated issues of changing size and frequency. Initially quarterly but twice yearly from 1993 and later irregular; #1-#14 were A5 size with 32pp or more in plain one-colour covers bearing only the Scheherazade logo and issue number; #15-#23 expanded to 36pp or more with two-colour pictorial covers; finally ...
Rogow, Roberta
(1942- ) US librarian and author, contributor to Fanzines and Filk activities from around 1978. Her Saga of Halvar the Hireling sequence beginning with Murders in Manatas (coll of linked stories 2013), though couched in historical fantasy terms, is of some sf interest as an Alternate History narrative set in a version of Manhattan (see ...
Cadora, Karen
(1970- ) US author and academic whose sf novel, Stardust Bound (1994), is set in a world dominated by the UniTech government, which has created a category of illegal activities called "science crime": such crimes include the practice of Astronomy. The lesbian protagonist is torn between love and astronomy in the Andes. An essay, "Feminist Cyberpunk" (November 1995 ...
McEvoy, Seth
(?1948- ) US author. His Not Quite Human sequence of young-adult sf tales is about a teenage Android, beginning with Not Quite Human #1: Batteries Not Included (1985) and ending with Not Quite Human #6: Killer Robot (1986). The Arcade Explorers sequence, all written with Laure Smith, begins with Arcade Explorers #1: Save the Venturians! (1985) and ends with ...
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 ...