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Enright, D J
(1920-2002) UK poet, academic, critic and author. Most of his work has no fantastic content, though Heaven Knows Where (1957) Satirizes with a fairly soft brush the attempts of some British academics to construct a Utopia in an Island venue. Of more direct interest is the Atlantis series of Young Adult novels – The Joke Shop (1976), ...
Wells, H G
(1866-1946) UK journalist, social critic and author, married to Catherine Wells from 1895 until her death in 1927, Rebecca West's partner 1913-1923; the most important of all nineteenth-century sf writers in the UK and in America as well, where his early work beginning with The Time Machine (1895) was widely published in contemporary editions. These novels and stories were particularly important in the ...
Brown, J G
(1901-1990) New Zealand teacher and editor whose work in the latter capacity has not been restricted to sf. His Anthology, From Frankenstein to Andromeda (anth 1966), is a conscientious scouring of sf materials through a century and a half, including both short stories and excerpts from several novels ranging from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818; rev ...
Kavanagh, John Patrick
(1950- ) US author of Sixers (1989; vt Camden's Knife 2014), a Near Future sf thriller set at the turn of the millennium; it revolves around the mystery of the eponymous sixers, young people immune to an opportunistic disease (see Medicine). The sequel in the Macroglint series is Weekend in Prism (2016), with a third volume projected. [JC/DRL]
Turton, Godfrey
(1901-1985) UK author of such fantasies as The Devil's Churchyard (1970) and The Festival of Flora: A Story of Ancient and Modern Times (1972). He remains of some sf interest for There Was Once a City (1927), in which an ancient City is inundated through a Disaster whose causation is Equipoisal between supernatural hubris and natural cataclysm; and ...
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 ...