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Rose, Malcolm
(1953- ) UK chemist and author of Young Adult fiction who may be best known for the Lawless and Tilley series of crime novels (not listed below) which, although the investigators are scientifically literate, is not sf. His first novels, which tend to focus on various Disasters, are of genre interest: The Obtuse Experiment (1993) is a thriller set in the ...
Scanlon, Mitchel
(? - ) Welsh author who has focused mainly on Ties, initially and primarily for the Warhammer Wargame universe, beginning with "Red Reward" in Inferno for July-August 2003, a Warhammer 40,000 tale; his contribution to the Horus Heresy sub-sequence, Descent of Angels (2007), interestingly focuses on the eponymous colony planet after a ...
Fantastic Fears
US Comic (1953-1954). Nine issues (but see below). Four Star publications. Artists include Jack Abel, Steve Ditko, Iger Shop and Robert Webb. Writers of scripts include Bruce Hamilton and Ruth Roche. Usually four strips and a two-page text story per issue. / Fantastic Fears featured Horror stories, mostly with supernatural elements, but some were borderline sf. For instance, #2 has "Fiends ...
Raife, Raymond
Pseudonym of an insecurely identified author, possibly Benjamin Hayward (? -? ), active from before 1900 in the magazines with most of his work 1908-1927 appearing in Boy's Own Paper (see Boys' Papers). Of sf interest are The Sheik's White Slave: Being an Account of the Unravelling of the Mysteries of the Temple of Djaramos (1895), a Lost Race tale set in North Africa, and ...
Mason, Eveleen Laura
(1838-1914) US author whose Utopia, Hiero-Salem: The Vision of Peace [for full title see Checklist below] (1889), presents spiritualist doctrines within an sf frame: the eponymous communitarian settlement in Wisconsin is inhabited by the "dualized", human beings who have shed all male or female characteristics (see Feminism; Gender). Mason's later works – most vividly ...
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 ...