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Harding, Lee
(1937-2023) Australian freelance photographer and author who was involved in activities of Australian Fandom, before 1955 under the names Leo Harding or L J Harding; early Fanzines launched in 1953 were Perhaps: The International Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Wastebasket. He began publishing sf professionally with "Displaced Person" for ...
Arlen, Michael
(1895-1956) UK-Bulgarian-Armenian author, born Dikran Kouyoumdjian, in the UK from 1901, not allowed to enlist in World War One because of his confused national status; naturalized in 1922 under the name Michael Arlen (which he then took by deed poll). Initially as Dikran Kouyoumdjian, he was active from 1916, writing as Arlen from about 1920. He is mainly remembered for The Green Hat: A Romance for a Few People ...
Slater, Henry J
(1879-1963) UK author whose work showed the influence of H G Wells in both Ship of Destiny (1951), where Post-Holocaust survivors sail across a drowned Europe, and The Smashed World (1952), set 3000 years hence in a World State which is destroyed by a reborn Napoleon. Some of Slater's effects oddly prefigure the afterlife fantasies of Philip José Farmer. ...
Spangler, Catherine
(? - ) US author who is of primary sf interest for her romantic Space Opera series, the Shielder sequence beginning with Shielder (1999), where an initial Planetary Romance setting – the planet Liron, afflicted by an induced Pandemic – soon expands galaxywards as the Shielder culture attempts to find a cure. The series ...
Stribling, T S
(1881-1965) US author best known for his realistic novels of the American South, including the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Store (1932), and as the author of the once popular detective stories featuring Professor Poggioli, a psychologist also referred to as Dr or Mr Henry Poggioli; of these tales, "Shadowed" (15 October 1930 Adventure; in Dr. Poggioli: Criminologist, coll 2004) suggests ...
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 ...