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Ruff, Matt
(1965- ) US author whose first novel, Fool on the Hill (1988), a fantasy set on a magic-irradiated college campus, was much influenced by previous models – some cited in the text – from John Crowley to Thomas Pynchon. His second, Sewer, Gas, and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy (1996), is an Equipoisal gonzo sf novel set in ...
Cowdrey, Albert E
(1933-2022) US author, much of whose nonfiction work, as an historian for the US Army Center of Military History, focused on the medical branches of the military; he ended this career as Chief of the Special History Branch of the US Army. As an author of fantasy and sf he began to publish work of genre interest with "The Lucky People" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for February 1968 as by Chet Arthur, and continued under his own name with "The ...
DiMarco, Jennifer
(1973- ) US publisher and author, usually on Gender issues, who is best known for the Patriarchy sequence, beginning with Escape to the Wind (1993), set in a Post-Holocaust Seattle run by an anti-female junta. Other work includes at least two novels, Immortality (1999) and Dragon Storm (2000). Her publishing firm, Pride & Imprints, claims to release books ...
Campbell, Hazel
(? -? ) UK author of adventure thrillers, one of which is of direct sf interest. The eponymous servants in The Servants of the Goddess (1928), a Lost Race tale set in the Himalayas, are an enslaved race of subhumans (see Apes as Human) who mine for gold and serve as soldiers. The Secret Brotherhood (1929) is a supernatural adventure set in India. [JC]
Warren, Chad
(? - ) UK author of Alien Heaven (1976), a Space Opera for Robert Hale Limited in which two refugees from an Earth afflicted with Overpopulation find happiness on another, far-off world. [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 ...