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Holgate, Jerome B
(1812-1893) US author of A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation in the Year of Our Lord 19— (1835), a self-published Dystopia set in a Near Future City in Upstate New York where miscegenation is legally enforced, over against every decent instinct of whites, who (Holgate's anti-Abolitionist venom must have seemed grotesque even in 1835) faint at the smell of Blacks. ...
Ehrlich, Max
(1909-1983) US author initially active as an author of Radio plays for various series, including The Shadow (see The Shadow); he also wrote some Television scripts of sf interest, include one in 1965 for Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and one in 1967 for Star Trek. His first novel, The Big Eye (1949), ...
Perriman, Cole
Joint pseudonym of US authors Wim Coleman (1954- ) and Pat Perrin (? - ), who are married to one another; their very Near Future sf novel, Terminal Games: A Cyberthriller (1994), faces its female protagonist, who does recreational time in a Cyberspace site called Insomnimania, with a serial killer, who seemed restricted to ...
Cohen, L J
(? - ) US author who has concentrated on series, the first being the Changeling's Choice fantasy sequence beginning with The Between (2012). Of sf interest is her second series, the Halcyon Space sequence of Young Adult Space Operas beginning with Derelict (2014); the galaxy here depicted is seen as vast, its pressure- and population-points being ...
Shanks, Edward
(1892-1953) UK editor, poet and author in various genres whose Scientific Romance, The People of the Ruins: A Story of the English Revolution and After (16 October 1919-12 February 1920 Land and Water; 1920), seems clearly to reflect the aftermath of World War One (Shanks, who was invalided from front line combat in 1915, was a war poet). The novel applies ...
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 ...