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Martin-Fehr, John
Working name of German teacher and author Martin Fehr (1905-1978), in the UK from about 1933; his sf novel, The End of His Tether (1972), depicts a Post-Holocaust world soon after a nuclear World War Three has infected the land with numerous diseases and mutations (see Mutants). Eventually representatives of a "new race" – a putative world-order based on strict ...
Graf, L A
Collaborative pseudonym of Karen Rose Cercone (1957- ), US author of romance thrillers mostly as by Karen Rose, and Julia Ecklar (whom see for further details and solo publications). Their work together began with the Graf title Star Trek: Ice Trap (1992) and continued with many further Ties to the Star Trek franchise. Again as Graf, the two also wrote one ...
Fifth Di ..., The
US low-paying Online Magazine which has been produced by a succession of publishers in various formats. It began as a slim, saddle-stapled, desk-top-published Digest magazine in September 1995, founded by James B Baker (1925-2002) and published bimonthly by Sam's Dot's predecessor company, Pro Mart Publishing, Carmichael, California. Baker wanted his publications to educate, and had Brian A Hopkins as science editor, but although ...
Armour, R Coutts
(1874-1945) Australian author, who wrote popular fiction, mostly for magazines, under his own name and under various pseudonyms, including Coutts Brisbane, Pierre Quiroule (a probable House Name), Hartley Tremayne, Reid Whitley (or Whitly), and other names not yet discovered; his career extended from before World War One until at least the late 1930s in sf and continued into the early 1940s in ...
Chappell, Fred
(1936-2024) US academic, poet and author who published some early amateur fiction in Robert Silverberg's Fanzine Spaceship 1952-1953; he was professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro from 1964 until his retirement in 2004. Most of his work within the water margins of Fantastika adheres to the broad remit of the weird, though his best-known novel Dagon ...
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 ...