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Cosmic Speculative Fiction
US downloadable E-Zine originally circulated, by subscription only, as an attachment to an e-mail. It was produced by Edward McFadden and appeared twice yearly from Spring 2004 to Winter 2006, totalling 5 issues, each of between 22-30 pages long, featuring 3 or four stories per issue. A planned print edition of the first issue and a planned omnibus of the first four issues has not eventuated. The third issue (Spring 2005) was produced in conjunction with Padwolf ...
Graham, Jorie
(1950- ) US academic and poet, active from the mid 1970s, in various positions at Harvard University from 1999; recipient of many recognitions, including the Pulitzer Prize, though expectedly no Rhysling Award. Her early work tends not to explore regions of the fantastic, literal or metaphorical, though the linked poems of dramatic transition assembled as Swarm (coll 2000) include mythological figures in vulnerable transit. ...
Puccetti, Roland
(1924-1995) US philosopher and author, long professionally involved in mind-body problems. He published several essays on the split-brain controversy, perhaps most accessibly in "Sperry on Consciousness: A Critical Appreciation" for The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy in 1977. Both of his novels deal, in their way, with the question. In The Death of the Führer (1972) Hitler's brain is transplanted into the body of a voluptuous woman, and "his" identity discovered, ...
Mittié, Jean-Corisandre
(? -? ) French author of Descente en Angleterre ["The Raid on England"] (1798), a very early example of the Future-War Invasion tale, here conceived in dramatic form, apparently farcical; any close resemblance to the much later Battle of Dorking mode is unestablished. [JC]
Perkins, Lucy Fitch
(1865-1937) US author of the loose Twins sequence of tales for older children, beginning with The Dutch Twins (1912). The various tales are linked by the fact that each features twins; there is no other continuity in the series. The only story with sf interest is The Cave Twins (1916), a fairly typical Prehistoric SF narrative whose twin protagonists are responsible for many culture-improving ...
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 ...