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Walsh, Goodwin
(? -? ) US author known only for one novel, The Voice of the Murderer (1926), of sf interest for depicting the Invention and consequences of a kind of Time Machine which accesses sounds from the past; as the title indicates, the voice of a murderer is thus detected. Walsh may be a not yet identified pseudonym. [JC]
Snyder, John
(? -? ) US author of an sf Satire, The Wind Trust: A Possible Prophecy (1903 chap), set in a grimly spoofed Near Future where a nefarious cartel, the Instamboul Corporation for the Control of the Wind, attempts to gain monopoly control over the elements – first taking ownership of the wind, then charging a royalty for breathing. As the cartel or trust begins to threaten the world ...
Pešek, Luděk
(1919-1999) Czech artist and author, whose first novels (about social inequalities; not sf, but listed below for convenience) were published in Czechoslovakia in the late 1940s, but from 1968, after being exiled by the communist regime, he lived in Switzerland, his books being first published in German translation; they have been widely translated into other languages. His astronomical paintings are well known, and have been featured in National Geographic; one appeared as the cover art ...
Cavelos, Jeanne
(1960- ) US mathematician, author, editor and teacher, who in the latter capacity created and has run the Odyssey writing workshop at various New England campuses since 1996. In her editorial career at Bantam Doubleday Dell, she created the Abyss list which specialized in Horror in SF. Her fiction has primarily been restricted to a series of Babylon 5 Ties, beginning with ...
Meier, Shirley
(1960- ) Canadian author, artist and poet who began to publish work of genre interest in the Shared World of the Fifth Millennium Fantasy series which she co-created with S M Stirling: Meier's credited contributions begin with The Sharpest Edge (1986; vt Saber and Shadow 1992) with S M ...
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 ...