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Kenyon, C R
(? -? ) UK author of books for Young Adult readers, including two sf tales: in A Polar Eden: Or, the Goal of the "Dauntless" (1897), a group of intrepid companions find an inhabited Lost World in a warm enclave in the heart of the Arctic; and in The Argonauts of the Amazon (1901), a Lost Race of Incans is discovered high above that river. ...
Horn, Peter
A House Name claimed to have been used in Ziff-Davis magazines by Henry Kuttner once, for "50 Miles Down" (Fantastic Adventures 1940), and by David Vern (see David V Reed) twice, also in 1940. Peter Horn may, however, be a straightforward pseudonym of Vern's. [JC/PN] links / ...
Higuera, Donna Barba
(? - ) US author whose first novel is nonfantastic, followed by El Cucuy Is Scared, Too! (2021 chap), a short fantasy for younger children featuring a sympathetic Monster. She is of sf interest for her second full-length tale, the Young Adult The Last Cuentista (2021), which interestingly soon extracts its young protagonist and her family away from a ...
Abramson, Ben
(1898-1955) Lithuanian-born book dealer, book collector, agent, bibliographer, publisher and editor, in USA from early childhood. He established the Argus Book Shop in Chicago in 1920, transferring the business to New York, where he was active from 1944 to 1949. Although he does not seem to have been an active participant in early sf Fandom, his interest in the literature of the fantastic in general was initially demonstrated through a ...
Modern Monsters
Letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema magazine printed on newsprint-quality paper. Publisher: Prestige Publications. Four bimonthly issues, April 1966 to October/November 1966. Editors: Gunther Collins and Donald F Glut (uncredited). / A good-quality magazine which tried to imitate Famous Monsters of Filmland, although with a slightly more mature slant. Modern Monsters ran the ...
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 ...