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Garden, Donald J
(? - ) UK author known only for Dawn Chorus (1975), for Robert Hale Limited, in which World War Three terminates only after America and China have suffered mutual destruction, leaving Britain (and a massive British Computer) to cope with the ensuing planet-devastating tornado. [JC]
Llewellyn, Robert
(1956- ) UK actor, comedian and author, perhaps best known for his role from 1989 to 2012 as the Android Kryten in the Television series Red Dwarf, for which he also wrote some scripts. He first came to notice within an sf context, however, with his play "Mammon, Robot Born of Woman" (performed Summer 1988, Edinburgh Festival), about a Robot whose ...
Hyne, C J Cutcliffe
(1866-1944) UK author who also wrote as by Aunt Ermyntrude (an advice to the lovelorn column) and as by Weatherby Chesney. He began producing work of sf interest with Beneath Your Very Boots: Being a Few Striking Episodes from the Life of Anthony Merlwood Haltoun, Esq (1889), a Lost-World tale set in caves under England, where a clement Underground quasi-Utopia has been established by ...
Gloss, Molly
(1944- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Joining" (June 1984 F&SF); much of her later fiction comprises historical novels set in her native Oregon, and her first book – Outside the Gates (1986), a Young Adult fantasy – is also set in a world both mountainous and pastoral. Her first sf novel, The Dazzle of Day (1997), is set mostly in a ...
Smith, Gus
Working name of UK teacher and author John Grenfell Smith (? - ), who also writes, for children, as Gus Grenfell. He began to publish work of genre interest with "The Incorporeal Crapshooters from the Ghost Planet Kring" in Odyssey for September 1997. In Feather & Bone (2001), which is set in rural Northumberland, a spirit emanating from within the earth, and BSE (mad cow disease), are seen to be – in a ...
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 ...