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Conesa, Lisa
(1935-1991) Polish-born author, editor, poet and fan, in the UK from a very early age, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Millionaires" in Macrocosm for December 1971 but thereafter wrote only poems, reviews and criticism. She published the well-produced and highly regarded 1970s Fanzine Zimri (eight issues, 1971-1976), whose contributors included Brian W Aldiss ...
Barnhouse, Perl T
(1877-1964) US farmer and author of a touristic sf novel, My Journeys with Astargo: A Tale of the Past, Present and Future (1952), in which spherical Antigravity-powered Spaceships are built – the initial Pioneerer being replaced by the Astargo – and various planets visited. As Damon Knight noted in In Search of Wonder: Essays on Modern Science Fiction ...
Angus, Tiffani
(1970- ) US teacher and author, in UK from 2010; her main academic posts have been with Anglia Ruskin University, 2016-2022; she began to publish work of genre interest with "If Wishes Were Horses" in Strange Horizons for May 2009. Her first novel, Threading the Labyrinth (2020; exp as coll with one added story 2024), is an historical fantasy. Angus is primarily of sf interest for the continuing nonfiction ...
Torres Quesada, Ángel
(1940- ) Spanish author, very popular and prolific in sf, fantasy and horror; he has also written as by A Thorkent or Alex Towers. He has published at least 128 novels, three collections and more than thirty short stories and novellas. His first book was Un mundo llamado Badoom ["A World Called Badoom"] (1963), a Pulp-style sf novel. His early stories were included in some of the most important anthologies of that time, such as ...
Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
(1868-1932) US author perhaps best known for the Polly Brewster series of adventure stories for girls; of some sf interest, The Prince of Atlantis (1929) describes the flight of Atlanteans from volcano-shattered Atlantis; most end up in the headwaters of the Nile, though some have stayed to embed the secret of Atlantis in the Sphinx, which they have constructed for that purpose. [JC]
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...