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Coover, Robert
(1932-2024) US author who established a considerable reputation with his novels, in which Fabulation and political scatology mix fruitfully. His work could be seen to represent a Postmodernist intensification of the same milieu excoriated by Richard Condon; at times both authors seem to be describing a nightmare dream of orgy-choked life in the Late Roman Empire (see ...
Nova – Fantastiske Fortellinger
Norwegian sf, fantasy and horror Magazine published 1971-1979 by the Stowa Forlag four to five times a year, with a total of 34 issues. Founded 1971 by the publisher and editor Terje Wanberg (1939-2006) it started as a translated editon of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction but became independent after the first two issues (September and October 1971); changing its name to ...
Key, Eugene G
(1907-1968) US academic, associate professor of engineering at East Los Angeles College, and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Red Ace" in Air Wonder Stories for February 1930, a tale involving aerial piracy and Antigravity. His sf collection, Mars Mountain (coll 1935), published by William L Crawford's semi-professional company Fantasy ...
Austen, Catherine
(1965- ) Canadian author, almost exclusively for younger readers and the Young Adult audience, most of her work being nonfantastic; the time machine in Walking Backwards (2009) is a delusion on the part of the protagonist's grieving father. Of sf interest is All Good Children (2011), set in a Dystopian Near Future world ...
Ah Lai
(1959- ) Poet, editor and author, who served from 1999 to 2006 as an editor of Kehuan Shijie ["SF World"], the best-selling genre magazine in the People's Republic of China. Born in the Ngawa and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Ah Lai is that rarest of Chinese authors: a member of China's Tibetan ethnic minority, a condition which shapes much of his work, including the much-garlanded Kong Shan ["Empty ...
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 ...