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Richards, Harvey D
Pseudonym of US military pilot and author Noël E Sainsbury Jr (1884-1956) for his Sorak sequence, beginning with Sorak of the Malay Jungle [for all subtitles see Checklist] (1934), and clearly intended to exploit the popularity of Tarzan. Sorak himself, and his animal companion (in this case, a tiger), are inherently as borderline-sf in their conception as Tarzan himself; but they venture (as does Tarzan) into sf territory, discovering a ...
Maël, Peter
Joint pseudonym of French authors Charles Causse (1862-1904) and Charles Vincent (1851-1920); most of their work as Peter Maël was directed to the children's market; of sf interest is one of these, Une Française au Pôle Nord (1893 magazine not identified; 1893; trans anon as Under the Sea to the North Pole 1893), the ship in question being a futuristic submarine (see Under the Sea). [JC]
Teitler, Stuart
(1940-2012) US bibliographer and bookseller, a specialist in the Lost Race novel, many of whose discoveries, some (though not all) amply described and synopsized, provided the substance of many entries in this encyclopedia. Although Lost-Race Fiction (2001), a version of the Bibliography he had been working on for many years, appeared privately before his death, it was not until its full publication as ...
Randall, John D
(1944- ) US author of an extremely late Yellow Peril tale, The Tojo Virus (1991), in which a Japanese super-corporation plans to infect America's Computers with an incapacitating virus (see Paranoia). [JC]
Technofantasy
Item of Terminology introduced in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy to denote narratives whose essentially Fantasy nature is more or less disguised by trappings of Technology, though usually with no serious attempt to add scientific or pseudoscientific justification. Even Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's sf ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...