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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Bhattacharya, Lokenath
(1927-2001) Indian-born Bengali translator and author whose fourth novel, Bābughātera Kumāri Mācha (1972; trans Meenakshi Mukherjee as The Virgin Fish of Babughat 1975), focuses its moderately abstract depiction of a Near-Future Dystopian country on the fate of the inmates of a surreal Zoo-like ...
Turner, Gerry
(1921-1982) US portrait photographer and author of fiction for the Young Adult market, including one sf novel, Stranger from the Depths (1967). Here the seeming last survivor of an ancient amphibian civilization from the Hollow Earth is discovered by a party of young US high-schoolers and their mentor, a college professor. The lizard-like being awakens (see Sleeper Awakes) and ...
Hamilton, M Lynn
(1886-1976) Australian author of The Hidden Kingdom (1932), in which the Utopian community of Ordsborough is discovered in a remote redoubt in northwest Australia. The doctor has been kidnapped and taken there; it is not confirmed whether or not it is the daughter of Colonel Ord with whom he falls in love. [JC]
Clark, Gideon
(circa 1888-1955) UK author of a Scientific Romance, Substitute for Living (1937), a Satire in which unwholesome consequences are generated through the Invention of a Time Viewer which shows moments from the past. [JC]
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 ...