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Nizet, Marie
(1859-1922) Belgian author whose only novel, Le Capitaine Vampire (1879; trans Brian Stableford as Captain Vampire 2007), is a Vampire story set in Rumania and in some aspects prefiguring Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). The tale cycles through its crepuscular world in a manner reminiscent of Jan Potocki's ...
Duffield, John William
(1859-1946) US bookseller, publisher, and author, in the latter capacity working mostly for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, for which he published at least 115 stories, usually book-length, under various names. As Franklin W Dixon, he wrote the nonfantastic Ted Scott Flying Series, based closely on the life of Charles A Lindbergh (1902-1974) (see Airplane Boys) and as by Richard H Stone the similar ...
Giambastiani, Kurt R A
(1958- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Supplanter" for Science Fiction Review in 1991, but who, after a few further stories, became best-known for his Fallen Cloud series of Alternate History Westerns set in the American West, and comprising The Year the Cloud Fell (2001), The Spirit of Thunder (2002), Shadow of the Storm ...
Sirota, Mike
(1946- ) US author, beginning with the Reglathium sequence of Planetary Romances, the first listed being The Prisoner of Reglathium (1978), but with all five volumes published simultaneously, and featuring various adventures across romantic continents: Monsters are encountered, and Underground vistas gape open, but the sequence lacks the narrative ...
Astounding Stories Yearbook
One of the many reprint Digest magazines published by Sol Cohen's Ultimate Publishing Co, reprinting material from Amazing Stories from the 1930s and 1940s. Two issues were released in 1970, the second under the title Astounding SF. Cohen's use of such a celebrated magazine title (see Astounding) was thought by fans to be cheeky. [BS/PN/MA] links / ...
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 ...