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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Marshall, Edison
(1894-1967) US author and big-game hunter, in active service during World War One; best known for his work outside the sf field, especially his many historical novels, though he began publishing sf early in his career with "Who is Charles Avison?" (April 1916 Argosy), an early Counter-Earth tale; the From a Frontiersman's Diary series (August 1919-January 1920 ...
Burt, Andrew
(? - ) US editor, publisher, academic and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "A Sailor on the Sea of Humanity" in Keen Science Fiction for July 1996. His first novel, Noontide Night: A Y2K Novel (1999), is set in a very Near Future world where the feared Y2K Disaster of 2000, when Computers and the ...
Measday, Stephen
(1950- ) Australian author and scriptwriter for various media, most significantly for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, his Television including The Time Game (1993), which he novelized as his first tale of sf interest, The Time Game (1993). The News on Aliens (1997), part of the otherwise nonfantastic Rick Street Roving Reporter sequence, deals with the discovery of ...
Okungbowa, Suyi Davies
Working name of Nigerian academic and author Osasuyi Okungbowa (1989- ), in Canada for some time, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Breaking the Habit" in Omenana for September 2015 as by Sui Davies. His first novel, David Mogo, Godhunter (2019), foretells his work to come in its complex use of Equipoisal counterpointing of narrative elements that might seem jostling, but which arguably well befit 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 ...