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Irving, Washington
(1783-1859) The father of the US short story and one of the first US professional authors, Irving is an important link in the transfer of the stories of German Romanticism to American soil. Although he studied as a lawyer and briefly pursued that career, his heart was always in writing, and he began publishing essays as early as 1802 in the New York Morning Chronicle, the first of his numerous pseudonyms being Jonathan Oldstyle. He soon produced a number of humorous satirical essays, and ...
August, Riley
(? - ) US author whose first novel, The Last Gifts of the Universe (2022; rev 2024), traces the hegira of an Archivist through a Space Opera universe nearing the End of Time, in search of relics as well as clues to the fall of so many great civilizations over the aeons: it is hinted that there may be a reason for this (a sequel is expected) (see ...
Balle, Solvej
(1962- ) Danish publisher, editor, translator and author; her first novel Lyrefugl ["Lyrebird"] (1986), a Robinsonade whose protagonist is lost on an Island, verges on the fantastic. She is primarily of sf interest for the multi-volume Om udregning af rumfang (2020-continuing), an ongoing novel whose first three instalments – ...
Davitt, Deborah L
(1974- ) US teacher, poet and author, initially of the Saga of Edda-Earth beginning with The Valkyrie (2014) (series not listed below). Her poetry has been assembled in The Gates of Never (coll, 2019) and elsewhere. She is of specific sf interest for a novella, The Carrying Capacity of Paradise (2024 chap), in which a tycoon is murdered on his own refuge Asteroid. [JC]
Kilink Istanbul'da
["Kilink in Istanbul"] Turkish film (1967). Atadeniz Film. Directed by Yilmaz Atadeniz. Written by Çetin Inanç. Cast includes Irfan Atasoy, Feridun Çölgeçen, Yildirim Gencer, Pervin Par and Muzaffer Tema. 71 minutes. Black and white. / The Kilink films are based on the Italian photo comic Killing, which began in 1966 and concerns the violent adventures of the brutal skeleton-suited ...
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 ...