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Sallis, James
(1944-2026) US musician, poet and author, briefly active in New Worlds during its Michael Moorcock-directed New-Wave phase; he began to publish work of genre interest in this context with "Kazoo" (August 1967 New Worlds) and co-edited the magazine 1968-1969. His clearly acknowledged models in the French avant garde and the gnomic brevity of much of his work ...
Baillie, Allan
(1943- ) UK-born author of children's fiction, in Australia from the age of six; of his numerous titles, almost all of which are non-fantastic adventures, most of them for younger children, two of his Young Adult tales are of sf interest. In Megan's Star (1988), a Telepathic link between an impoverished girl and a boy who has escaped an institution leads to contact with ...
Hill, Roger [2]
(1948-2023) US author, fan, and collector and historian of Comics – especially of EC Comics – who began to publish relevant nonfiction and artwork in the Fanzine Squa Tront edited and published by his friend Jerry Weist and launched in 1967. The Squa Tront association continued for more than 40 years. Hill also published his own EC Fan-Addict Fanzine from 2003. / Hill ...
Voltaire
Most famous pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), enormously productive and successful French philosopher, historian, playwright, belletrist who wrote under at least 170 other names. Of interest as Proto SF is "Micromégas", the title story contained in Le Micromégas de Mr. de Voltaire, avec une Histoire des Croisades & un nouveau plan de l'Histoire de l'esprit humain (coll 1752; trans Tobias ...
Lindsay, Kathleen
(1903-1973) Extremely prolific author born in the UK but latterly of Somerset West, Cape Province, South Africa; she also lived in India, New Zealand, and Egypt, finally settling in South Africa in the late 1940s. In quantity and quality her output ranks with that of John Creasey and Lauran Paine; many of her supposed 904 books were routine romances or crime thrillers. Most of her sf appeared under the ...
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 ...