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Lofting, Hugh
(1886-1947) UK civil engineer and author, mostly in the USA from 1912, though he joined the Irish Guards in 1916, was severely wounded in 1917 and invalided out. It was during his period in the trenches that – like some other central creators of twentieth century fantasy, including J R R Tolkien, with first-hand experience of World War One – he began to create a fantasy universe, at least in part to sidestep a ...
Clem, Ralph S
(? - ) US co-editor of two Anthologies with Martin H Greenberg and Joseph D Olander. The City: 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction (anth 1976), where Clem's byline omits the middle initial, assembles sf tales of Cities life along with an editorial introduction and thirteen essays on such aspects ...
Bernard, Joel
(? - ) Writer of whom nothing is known beyond the attachment of his name to a Tie to the Man from U.N.C.L.E. universe: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Thinking Machine (1968), which is #11 in the UK numbering of the sequence and #21 in the US. [JC]
Tales of Magic and Mystery
US Pulp magazine published by Personal Arts Company, Camden, New Jersey and edited by Walter B Gibson. It ran for five issues, December 1927 to April 1928. A weird fiction/occult magazine published partly to take advantage of Gibson's connections in the world of stage magic and particularly with Howard Thurston (1869-1936), for whom Gibson ghost-wrote several so-called true experiences starting with "The Miracle Man of Benares" ...
Aldunate, Elena
(1925-2005) Working name of Chilean author María Elena Aldunate Bezanilla, one of the first women in that country to produce a sizeable body of sf, though she wrote Utopian fantasies and realist works as well. She was vice president and co-founder, along with Hugo Correa, Roberto Pliscoff and Andrés Rojas Murphy, of the Club Chileno de Ciencia Ficción [Chilean SF Club] in the early 1970s. / Aldunate's ...
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 ...