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Barnes, Julian
(1946- ) UK author who has published detective thrillers as by Dan Kavanagh; his most famous single novel remains Flaubert's Parrot (1984). He has written some Scientific Romances of interest. An abstractedness about the circumstances of the world (see Mainstream Writers of SF) attends Staring at the Sun (1986), which carries its protagonist from her birth in ...
Trías, Fernanda
(1976- ) Uruguayan translator and author (see Latin America) whose first novel, La Azotea (2001; trans Annie McDermott as The Rooftop 2021), though not literally fantastic, presses the water margins of Fantastika through its depiction of an imposed, incestuous isolation (see Prison) on its protagonist, seemingly more intense than humanly bearable. Of ...
Castle, Jeffery Lloyd
Working name of Geoffrey Lloyd Castle (1898-1990), UK author and aeronautical engineer who served in the Royal Field Artillery and then the Royal Flying Corps during World War One, and again in the former in World War Two. He was married to the author Margery Sharp (1905-1991) [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. His first sf novel, Satellite E One (1954), deals somewhat eccentrically with the scientific ...
Wu Yan
(1962- ) Chinese author, Beijing-born but of Manchu ethnicity, whose education encompassed psychology and a management PhD, and whose work includes the teaching of science fiction at Beijing Normal University. His first story, "Adventure in an Iceberg" (1978 Shaonian Kexue), was published when he was only 16, establishing him as an author before the academic career that truly supported him. Wu Yan has often appeared in ...
Armfield, Julia
(1990- ) UK author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Mantis" in Neon for May 2018. Her first novel, Our Wives Under the Sea (2022), which hints Equipoisally at a Horror-In-Sf "explanation", follows the protagonist's slowly intensifying acquaintance with grief as her wife suffers/undergoes metamorphosis into something like the benthic creature she has encountered in a ...
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 ...