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Holloway, Brian
(? - ) UK author of whom nothing is known beyond the fact that he wrote sf novels under a number of Curtis Warren House Names, almost all of them Space Operas, those few with Terran venues generally featuring Alien threats to civilization: Destination Alpha (1952) as Berl Cameron, ...
Singh, Nalini
(1977- ) Fiji-born author, in New Zealand from childhood, most of whose works can be described as romances, with her early singletons, beginning with Desert Warrior (2003), told without recourse to the supernatural [these titles are not given in the Checklist below]. Much of her later work can be subsumed under the Paranormal Romance label, though the series for which she is best known, the Psy-Changeling sequence beginning with ...
Linder, D Barry
Pseudonym of US author Elizabeth Lorinda DuBreuil (1924-1980) for Libido 23 (1969), a fairly soft sf pornography tale involving enhanced Sex. [JC]
She
The charismatic, goddess-like female ruler – usually referred to as "She" or "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed" – in the Ayesha sequence by H Rider Haggard, opening with She: A History of Adventure (October 1886-January 1887 The Graphic; cut 1886; full text 1887). Ayesha clearly combines aspects of Aphrodite and Isis, being imperious, ravishing and potentially Immortal; but vulgarized echoes ...
Thorpe, Francis Newton
(1857-1920) US historian, political scientist and author, whose second novel, The Spoils of Empire: A Romance of the Old World and the New (1903), locates a Lost Race in the Mexico of late Aztec times. [JC]
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 ...