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Coover, Robert
(1932-2024) US author who established a considerable reputation with his novels, in which Fabulation and political scatology mix fruitfully. His work could be seen to represent a Postmodernist intensification of the same milieu excoriated by Richard Condon; at times both authors seem to be describing a nightmare dream of orgy-choked life in the Late Roman Empire (see ...
Gutteridge, Lindsay
(1923-2007) UK author, commercial artist and art teacher. His sf series featuring Matthew Dilke – Cold War in a Country Garden (1971), Killer Pine (1973) and Fratricide Is a Gas (1975) – calls upon themes from espionage to Ecology to buttress far-fetched tales of a government agent Miniaturized with some companions (see ...
Tree of Palme, A
Japanese animated film (2002). Original title Parumu no Ki. Palm Studio, Genco. Directed and written by Takashi Nakamura. Voice cast includes Yurika Hino, Akiko Hiramatsu, Motomu Kiyokawa, Kouka, Daisuke Sakaguchi and Megumi Toyoguchi. 137 minutes, Colour. / On a planet where immense fish swim through the sky (see Life on Other Worlds), "the kooloop tree thrives on the particles of memory that it soaks up from ...
Worts, George F
(1892-1967) US author who also wrote as by Loring Brent, not always restricting his use of this name to magazine publications. The Peter the Brazen sequence, whose protagonist boasts uncanny hearing and other Superpower-like abilities, is set primarily in the Far East, where Yellow Peril menaces are routinely dealt with by the Hero. The series appeared initially in ...
Casper, Susan
(1947-2017) US editor and author, married to Gardner Dozois until her death. She began publishing sf with "Spring-Fingered Jack" for Fears (anth 1983) edited by Charles Grant. Her fiction in collaboration with Dozois is assembled in Slow Dancing through Time (coll 1990), which includes one collaboration with both Dozois and Jack M Dann. These stories are also ...
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 ...