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Appleton, Jane Sophia
(1816-1884) US editor and author of regional texts, focused primarily on Bangor, Maine; Voices from the Kenduskeag (anth 1848) with Cornelia Crosby Barrett, assembles poems and stories for a local audience, some fantastical; much of the material seems to be directly by Appleton. Of sf interest in the book are "Vision of Bangor in the Twentieth Century" and "Sequel to the Vision of Bangor", in which a distant Near Future Bangor is seen as a ...
Lucian [2]
Pseudonym of an unidentified UK author (? - ) whose 1920: Dips into the Near Future (last quarter of 1917 The Nation; coll of linked stories 1918 chap) sharply examines a Near Future UK in Satirical terms as a land inherently deformed by the experience of World War One; the book is based on models from the original ...
Morgan, Kathleen
(1950- ) US author whose later work is self-identified as designed for a Christian market, and tends to involve conversations of the unfaithful whose quest for love is defective; the Guardians of Gadiel sequence beginning with Giver of Roses (2005) is so couched. / Morgan is of more specific sf interest for some tales that read as singletons but are very loosely associated through background elements, beginning with The Knowing Crystal ...
Dime-Novel SF
Dime-novel sf, which was almost wholly boys' fiction, appeared in two media: serially in such Boys' Papers as Golden Hours, Happy Days, The Boys of New York and Young Men of America, or as complete stories in series publications like The Wide Awake Weekly, The Boy's Star Library, New York Five Cent Library, the Frank Reade Library and The Nugget Library. The most ...
Dean, Mal
(1941-1974) UK illustrator who died young, of cancer. Dean was well known in the jazz world as a trumpeter and as the mainspring of Mal Dean's Amazing Band (sometimes called just The Amazing Band), for his illustrations in such journals as Melody Maker, and for a number of album covers. In sf he is best known for the work he did for New Worlds in the late 1960s and early 1970s; it was especially associated with the Jerry Cornelius stories by Michael ...
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 ...