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Hoskin, Rik
(? - ) Author who under the House Name James Axler has contributed to the very lengthy Deathlands sequence of Ruined Earth sf and – several times – to the also long and roughly similar in background Outlanders sequence. Both are discussed in more detail in the entry for James Axler. [DRL]
DuBois, Brendan
(1959- ) US author of thrillers, some of which – tales like Final Winter (2008), about the aftermath of 9/11 [not listed below] – come close to the Technothriller, though they do not usually push the envelope of the present day into sf; he has also written as by Alan Glenn. Of genre interest is Resurrection Day (1999), a Sidewise Award-winning ...
Lipsyte, Robert
(1938- ) US journalist and author, mostly of nonfantastic tales, often with sporting themes; father of Sam Lipsyte. He began to publish work of genre interest with "The Redman" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for September 1964, with Thomas Rogers; but only returned to the fantastic with The Twinning Project sequence beginning with "The Twinning Project" (2012), a ...
Bogoraz, Vladimir Germanovitch
(1865-1936) Soviet anthropologist and linguist, who also signed himself Waldemar Bogoras and Tan-Bogoraz; a central figure in the study of the Chukchee language of Siberia, on which he published definitively. His sf novel, Zhertvy drakona (1927; trans Stephen Graham as Sons of the Mammoth 1929 US as by Waldemar Bogoras), is Prehistoric SF which reflects his professional concerns in a tale whose Neanderthal protagonists encounter ...
Johnson, Kenneth R [2]
(1942-2011) UK journalist, author of books on occult and fringe science, and Horror author included here to distinguish him from the US bibliographer Kenneth R Johnson and the US television worker and novelist Kenneth Johnson. The UK Johnson also publishes as Ken Johnson and Kenneth Rayner Johnson (the Rayner being his mother's maiden name). His novels are Blue Sunshine ...
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 ...