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Wonders of the Spaceways
UK pocketbook-size magazine, published by John Spencer, London; edited by Samuel Assael and Maurice Nahum, both uncredited. Ten numbered, undated issues 1951-1954. / One of the four poor-quality Spencer juvenile-sf magazines of the 1950s, all very similar, the others being Futuristic Science Stories, Tales of Tomorrow, and ...
Severn, David
Pseudonym of UK author David Storr Unwin (1918-2010), a member of the Unwin publishing family; most of his work was for older children, beginning with Rick Afire! (1942), the first of several nonfantastic titles – the rick here in question being in fact a mundane hayrick – in the Crusoe sequence, which was followed by the Warners series, similarly nonfantastic, perhaps so designed to comfort readers living through World War Two and its aftermath. Severn's ...
Greene, Kirby
Pseudonym of an unrevealed US author (? - ) of whom nothing is known beyond Brotherhood of the Stars (1994), a competent but unchallenging Space Opera with elements of the Planetary Romance. [JC]
Stasse, Lisa M
(? - ) US author whose Dystopian Near Future Young Adult Forsaken sequence beginning with The Forsaken (2012) is set in an America distended by its successful Invasion of Canada and of Mexico; the young female protagonist, isolated at the aged of sixteen after she has failed the Government Personality ...
Pearson, Martin
Pseudonym used by Donald A Wollheim for over twenty solo stories including the Ajax Calkins series and "Mimic" (December 1942 Astonishing Stories), the latter filmed as Mimic (1997) directed by Guillermo Del Toro. There is one collaborative Pearson title, "The Embassy" (March 1942 Astounding), which Wollheim ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...