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Riding, Julia
(? -? ) UK author of several Space Operas for Robert Hale Limited, beginning with Gabion (1979). Space Traders Unlimited (1982) is a similar adventure for the Young Adult market. [JC]
Hyde, Christopher
(1949- ) Canadian television interviewer and author, generally of Technothrillers, beginning with The Wave (1979) and continuing with titles like The Icarus Seal (1982) and Crestwood Heights (1988), the eponymous village under siege in the latter tale evoking Stephen King, Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives (1974), and even ...
Paine, Lauran
(1916-2001) US stunt rider, rancher and author, extraordinarily prolific in several fields, active from the mid 1940s, with more than 900 novels under his own name and 69 identified pseudonyms from 1950 until the mid-1990s, almost always for Robert Hale Limited. Over 600 of these were Westerns, many of them achieving a level of genuine competence; a relative handful of them were sf, which he wrote without particular ...
Broaddus, Maurice
(1970- ) UK-born teacher and author, in the USA from early childhood, who for most of his career has concentrated on fantasy and horror. He began to publish work of genre interest with "Since We Can Die But Once" in Deathgrip: Exit Laughing (anth 2006) edited by Walt Hicks; his best known work to date, the Knights of Breton Court sequence beginning with King Maker (2010), mixes Urban Fantasy and the Matter of Britain [see The ...
Uchūjin
["Cosmic Dust"] Japanese Fanzine (1957-2009), famously and entirely a pet project of the prominent editor, translator and author Takumi Shibano, which formed an integral part of its country's Fandom in the latter part of the twentieth century. / Founded as a monthly mimeographed publication in 1957, Uchūjin was never a large-circulation journal, with print-runs ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...