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Hildebrandt, The Brothers

Working name for the team of American artists Gregory J Hildebrandt (1939-2024) and Timothy Mark Allen Hildebrandt (1939-2006), identical twin brothers, although they also worked separately using the working names Greg Hildebrandt and Tim Hildebrandt. They will forever be regarded primarily as the definitive illustrators of J R R Tolkien because of the famous Tolkien calendars that featured their paintings of his characters; oddly enough, except for one 1975 ...

Holloway, Emory

(1885-1977) US academic – winner of the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for a pioneering study of Walt Whitman (1819-1892) – who is of sf interest for a mild Satire, Janice in Tomorrow-Land (1936), which carries a version of Lewis Carroll's Alice figure into a modernistic Near Future, which she finds moderately bewildering. [JC]

Guasch, Pol

Working name of Spanish/Catalan author Pol Guasch i Arcas (1997-    ), whose first novel, Napalm al cor (2021; trans Mara Faye Lethem as Napalm in the Heart 2024), is set Equipoisally im either or both an indeterminately Near Future Nomansland or the remains of an earthly City that might have once ...

Webb, Janeen

(1951-    ) Australian author, editor and critic, married to Jack Dann since 1995, who has published notable essays and reviews since 1985 and who was part of the influential editorial collective of Australian Science Fiction Review: Second Series from 1987 to the magazine's closure in 1991. With Dann she co-edited ...

Castier, Jules

(1888-1957) French translator and author, translator of English texts into French, including Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), and vice versa. Written in English, his collection of Parodies of well-known authors, Rather Like ... Some Endeavours to Assume the Mantles of the Great ... With a Publisher's Note Embodying the Opinions of the Great (coll 1920), includes Arthur Conan ...

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 ...



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