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Reyes, Ruben, Jr
(? - ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "SyncALife" in Lightspeed for August 2022, with some of his numerous short stories assembled as There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven (coll 2024). His first novel, Archive of Unknown Universes (2025), features an apparently patented device known as the Defractor, which also functions as a Time Viewer. The ...
Knebel, Fletcher
(1911-1993) US journalist and author, most of whose books are political thrillers, often hovering at the edge of sf. Three of these tales are of particular interest: Seven Days in May (1962) with Charles W Bailey – later filmed as Seven Days in May (1964), directed by John Frankenheimer – describes an attempted military coup in the USA; Night of Camp David (1965) ...
McIver, G
(1859-1945) Scottish-born author, whose name was registered at birth as MacIver, in Australia from 1861; his Neuroomia: A New Continent: A Manuscript Delivered from the Deep (1894) routinely uncovers a clement Lost World in the Antarctic inhabited by a long-lived high-tech folk who inform us that Mars is inhabited and spins off her excess population by dumping them on a visiting planet. [JC]
Bailey, J O
(1903-1979) US scholar, professor of literature at the University of North Carolina, where his MA thesis was published as The Scientific Novel of H G Wells (1927) (see H G Wells). He is of sf interest primarily for Pilgrims through Space and Time: Trends and Patterns in Scientific and Utopian Fiction (1947), the first academic study of sf, which it analyses primarily on a thematic basis, and without ever using the term "science fiction", ...
Popp, Robin T
(? - ) US corporate executive and author whose first romantic Space Opera series, the Sun sequence beginning with Too Close to the Sun (2003) features Aliens whose interstellar practice it is to abduct members of intelligent species, subject them to total Memory Edits, and sell the bodies off. The second volume, Dark Side of the Sun ...
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 ...