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Coover, Robert
(1932-2024) US author who established a considerable reputation with his novels, in which Fabulation and political scatology mix fruitfully. His work could be seen to represent a Postmodernist intensification of the same milieu excoriated by Richard Condon; at times both authors seem to be describing a nightmare dream of orgy-choked life in the Late Roman Empire (see ...
Corcoran, Travis J I
(1971- ) US author of the self-published Aristillus sequence of sometimes didactically Libertarian SF novels beginning with The Powers of the Earth (2017). This first volume both acknowledges the inspiration of Robert A Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (December 1965-April 1966 If; 1966) and engages with many of its tropes (including ...
Casper, Susan
(1947-2017) US editor and author, married to Gardner Dozois until her death. She began publishing sf with "Spring-Fingered Jack" for Fears (anth 1983) edited by Charles Grant. Her fiction in collaboration with Dozois is assembled in Slow Dancing through Time (coll 1990), which includes one collaboration with both Dozois and Jack M Dann. These stories are also ...
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 ...
Anderson, M T
(1968- ) US author who has written almost exclusively for younger readers and the Young Adult audience; for the former market – in series like the Norumbegan Quartet, which is set partly in an Alternate World, and the spoofish Pals in Peril/Thrilling Tales [details in Checklist] – he has restricted himself to Fantasy. The Octavian Nothing ...
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 ...