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Pyper, Andrew
(1968-2025) Canadian author, active from the mid-1990s, who also wrote as by Mason Coile; almost all his work, beginning with Kiss Me (coll 1996) and the successful Lost Girls (1999), was supernatural horror [not listed below]. He is of sf interest for William (2024) as by Mason Coile, whose claustrophobic protagonist spends his time in isolation creating a Robot named William whose resemblance to ...
Aikin, Charles
(? - ) US author of a Hollow Earth novel, Forty Years With the Damned; or, Life Inside the Earth (1895), a kind of multi-cultural, multi-ethnic Utopia, though there are aerial conflicts. The protagonists, who have escaped slavery in antebellum America, later fly in a Spaceship to Mars, where they undergo further adventures. ...
Silent History, The
App (2012) and novel (2014). Written by Eli Horowitz, Kevin Moffett, Matthew Derby. App development: Russell Quinn. / In a recognizable near-present (identified in both formats as commencing in 2011), a generation of Children are born lacking any facility for speech or, by extension, Communication of any kind. Initially sporadic accounts of their intrusion into society gradually give way to an increasingly ...
Nabokov, Vladimir
(1899-1977) Russian-born US poet, translator, entomologist and author. Raised in Russia until the Revolution, and then educated at Cambridge, he lived between the wars in Germany and France, writing as by V Sirin; he emigrated to the USA in 1940 – at which point he began to write in English rather than Russian (he had been an accomplished translator from English into Russian for some years) – and from 1959 lived in Switzerland. His first books of poetry date from the teens of the ...
Nueva Dimensión
["New Dimension"] The most important and longest-running sf magazine in Spain, published by Domingo Santos, Luis Vigil and Sebastián Martínez. Nueva Dimensión (1968-1983), popularly known as ND, published 148 regular issues, five extra issues and issued several collections of books. The schedule was initially bimonthly and changed to monthly after issue #20. It began with 168 pages that were reduced ...
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 ...