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Osborne, Karen
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Retirement" in Aiofe's Kiss for December 2008; her Memory War sequence beginning with Architects of Memory (2020) is a Hard SF Space Opera, containing elements of Military SF. set in an interstellar environment with resemblances to traditional ...
Fortune, Margaret
(? - ) US author whose Young Adult sf novel, Nova (2015), opens a projected five-book sequence. The young protagonist, suffering Amnesia, must discover her true nature and how to love while restricted to a giant Space Station, where she has arrived after involvement in an interstellar war waged by Earth to gain access to an inhabitable world (see ...
Edwards, Megan
(1952- ) US author, active from the mid 1990s, perhaps best known for her nonfantastic Copper Black detective thriller series beginning with Getting Off On Frank Sinatra: A Copper Black Mystery (2017) [series is not listed below]. She began publishing work of genre interest with "Rubicon" in Mensa Journal for September 2015, which forms the basis for her first sf novel, A Coin for the Ferryman (2022), a ...
Clyne, Ronald
(1925-2006) American artist and book designer, sometimes credited in error as Robert Clyne. As a young sf fan in Chicago, Clyne began his career by contributing artwork to some regional fanzines as well as interior illustrations and cartoons to Ray Palmer's magazines Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures. After sending a sample of his work to August ...
Hassler, Kenneth W
(1932-1999) US personnel specialist and author whose routine sf novels, most of them Space Operas, are The Glass Cage (1969), Destination: Terra (1970), The Dream Squad (1970), A Message from Earth (1970), Intergalac Agent (1971) and The Multiple Man (1972). [JC]
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...