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Stead, C K
(1932- ) New Zealand poet, academic and author whose acerbic, well crafted novels have received considerable praise. Of some sf interest is his first: Smith's Dream (1971; rev 1973) depicts a tyrannical Dystopia, and a Near Future Vietnam-like conflict set in New Zealand, with an ending harshened in the revised edition; it was filmed as Sleeping Dogs ...
Lottem, Emanuel
(1944-2024) Israeli translator and editor, active since the 1970s, in which capacities he was instrumental in introducing genre sf to an Israeli audience. He was formerly a lecturer in economics and in the diplomatic service. / He began translating for the publishing house Keter as a way of supplementing his income. When Keter decided to launch a new science fiction imprint, Lottem became its first editor. The White Series, as it became known – due to ...
Clock, Herbert
(1890-1979) US businessman and author, in active service during World War One, apparently senior collaborator with the lawyer Eric Boetzel (1884-1958), whose role was to cut the manuscript in half, on The Light in the Sky (1929), an sf tale set in the Underground Lost World of Atzlan, extending from Mexico into the Gulf of Mexico. Aztecs had retreated here after the genocidal ...
Tomb of Terror
US Comic (1952-1954). 16 issues. Harvey Publications Inc.. Artists include Joe Certa, Lee Elias, Moe Marcus and Rudy Palais. Scriptwriters include Bob Powell. 36 pages. four long strips and one (occasionally two) short text stories each issue; plus short strips and one-page, purportedly non-fiction, pieces as filler (we are assured Shangri-La exists, as do lost worlds with prehistoric monsters). / For most of its run Tomb of Terror published ...
Michel, M Scott
(1916-1992) US author, mostly of thrillers; Journey into Limbo: A Novel of Intimate Adventure (1962) in which a call-girl and a psychiatrist, trapped on a mysterious tropical Island, have Sex together and discover a Lost World. [JC]
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 ...