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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
Astonishing Stories
US Pulp magazine, 16 issues February 1940 to April 1943, mostly bimonthly, published by Fictioneers, Inc, Chicago; edited from February 1940 to September 1941 by Frederik Pohl and from November 1941 to April 1943 by Alden H Norton. / Fictioneers, Inc was a subsidiary of Popular Publications. After the success of this magazine and its sister publication, ...
Smith, Evelyn E
(1922-2000) US crossword-puzzle compiler and author, who wrote at least five gothic romances as by Delphine C Lyons, some of which were supernatural; she began publishing sf with "Tea Tray in the Sky" in Galaxy for September 1952, and for about a decade published actively in the magazines; after about 1960 she appeared there only infrequently. For her crossword story "BAXBR/DAXBR" (in Time to Come, anth 1954, ed August ...
Creswick, Paul
(1866-1947) UK author, who began publishing work of some genre interest with "The Only Prince" for The Quarto in 1897. Robin Hood and His Adventures (1902; vt Robin Hood 1917) is one of the finest adaptations of the cycle; The Beaten Path: A Fantasy (1924) is a capable ghost story. His only Scientific Romance, The Turning Wheel (1928), is of interest for its combination of mystical themes with ...
Wheeler, Francis
(1904-1969) UK author, mostly of thrillers, though as Francis Leslie Wheeler he published several volumes of popular Christian theology. His Sylvanian Adventure (1939) has some sf interest as a Ruritanian tale set in a hidden, heavily forested kingdom dangerously close to the outbreak of World War Two. [JC]
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 ...