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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 ...
Cohen, Barney
Working name of US author Bernard Halsband Cohen (1944- ), whose first novel of genre interest was The Night of the Toy Dragons (1977). The Taking of Satcon Station (1982) with Jim Baen, the first of two Asher Bockhorn sf thrillers, is an engagingly over-the-top application of private-eye idioms and plots (Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon [1930] being much in evidence) to near space, the ...
Hall, Chloe
Pseudonym of US computer scientist and author Maureen Caudill (1951- ) who has published under her own name nonfiction on AI developments and psychic issues, along with nonfantastic romances. She is of sf interest for Ariel's Dance (1998), a romantic Space Opera whose protagonist, a negotiator between two contrasting planets, attempts to recover a lost heirloom while falling in love. [JC]
Ester, R T
(?1986- ) Nigerian visual designer and author, in USA from 1998, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Meddling Fields" in Clarkesworld for March 2022. His first novel, The Ganymedan (2025), unusually begins on long-settled Mars and carries its protagonist into already sell-settled interstellar Space Opera country on a complexly introspective ...
Zimmer, Paul Edwin
(1943-1997) US author, brother of Marion Zimmer Bradley, with whom he wrote his first sf, the Survivors sequence comprising Hunters of the Red Moon (1973) [unacknowledged until 1992 printing], whose protagonist is abducted by Aliens to serve as gladiatorial prey on a game planet (see Games and Sports), and The Survivors (1979), a somewhat congested ...
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 ...