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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Mugnaini, Joe
(1912-1992) Working name of American artist Joseph Anthony Mugnaini, born in Italy, though he moved to Los Angeles with his parents when he was still an infant. Although respected for accomplishments in other areas, Mugnaini is best known for his long association with Ray Bradbury, who regarded him as both a friend and the best interpreter of his work. As a result, he did the covers and interior art for several first editions of Bradbury's works, as well as ...
Infinity Plus
Sf/fantasy fiction and reviews website edited 1997-2006 by Keith Brooke. Infinity Plus is now dormant, but its archives can still be read online. [DRL] links / Infinity Plus
Vaughan, Thomas Hunter
(? -? ) UK author, seemingly active only during the teens of the twentieth century; of some sf interest is The Gates of the Past (1911), a tale of Reincarnation in which Ancient Egyptians manifest themselves in London under the sway of an occult psychologist/magus named Ramon Cafara. [JC]
Barry, Iris
(1895-1969) UK-born critic, film curator, poet and author, in US from 1930; she lived with Wyndham Lewis for several years from around the end of World War One until 1922, having two children with him. She was primarily a writer on film – D W Griffith: American Film Master (1940 chap) was published by the Museum of Modern Art in New York – and as the founder in 1935 and curator until her 1950 retirement of the MOMA Film Library was a ...
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 ...