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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Smith, Mrs J Gregory
Working (ie married) name of US author Ann Eliza Brainerd Smith (1819-1905), two of whose three novels are of sf interest. Seola (1878; rev vt Angels and Woman: A Revision of the Unique Novel, Seola 1924) anonymous, which is set before the Flood, combines motifs out of Prehistoric SF and the Lost Race tale; it comprises the 4,000-year-old journal of the eponymous maiden, during the course of which it ...
Sullivan, Philip A
(1882-? ) US lawyer and author of a Utopia, Man Finds the Way (1939), in which the power of Religion, through the founding of the United States of the World, leads to universal peace. [JC]
Stamper, Joseph
(1886-1974) UK author, whose peripatetic early life is recorded in his autobiography, Less Than the Dust; Or, the Memoirs of a Tramp. He is of modest sf interest for "The Bote Upon the Watter" (1933), a Time Travel tale whose unscrupulous protagonist takes a bevy of young women to various periods, including the era of Atlantis, but cannot hang on to them very long. [JC]
White, Andrea
(1953- ) US author whose first novel, the Young Adult Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 (2005; vt No Child's Game: Reality TV 2083 2006), features the adventures of two teenagers give the chance to re-enact, as a reality Television show, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's prolonged and ultimately fatal Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, 1910-1913. The Upcity Chronicles ...
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 ...