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Sutherland, Morris
Pseudonym of UK author Gwendolen Sutherland Morris (1892-1973), most of whose novels were crime fiction; of sf interest is Second Storm (1930), a Near Future Politics tale set in 1933, when Russia experiences, to its betterment, a second revolution. [JC]
Aguirre, Forrest
(1969- ) US editor and author who has been associated with Jeff VanderMeer in the Leviathan anthologies of fantastic literature, specifically co-editing Leviathan 3 (anth 2002) and editing solo Leviathan 4 (anth 2004). His first fiction of genre interest was "The Nut Lady's Cabin" for The Earwig Flesh Factory in 2000; and his work, mostly ornately argued Fabulation ...
Herbert, Edward G
(1869-1938) UK author of Newaera: A Socialist Romance, with a Chapter on Vaccination (1910). This novel describes a socialist Utopia which is founded on an isolated Island, but tragically fails. [JC]
Courtney, S
(? - ) Zimbabwean author whose play, Fallout (performed 19897; 1990 chap), portrays a Zimbabwean family initially indifferent but quickly coming to an awareness that the Near Future outbreak of World War Three, starting on the Russian-Chinese border, has ended civilization. As the play ends in the clutches of Nuclear Winter, radiation ...
Biheguan Zhuren
["Master of the Jade Lotus Pavilion"] Pseudonym of Jin Zuoli (? -? ), a Chinese author whose first work of genre note Huangjin Shijie ["Golden World"] (1907 Xiaoshuo Lin) imagined Chinese coolies in America resisting a real-world 1894 racial exclusion law by founding a Utopian community. Inspired in part by the fiction of Liang Qichao, he subsequently wrote ...
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 ...