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Space Busters
US Comic (1952). Two issues. Approved Comics, Inc (see Ziff-Davis). Artists include Allen Anderson, Murphy Anderson, Bernie Krigstein and Norman Saunders. Three Space Busters and one other strip per issue, plus 2-3 short non-fiction pieces. / With the opening Space Busters tale most of our Solar System has been conquered (see ...
Ellsworth, Spencer
(? - ) US teacher and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Mount Rainier Considers its Mental Health" in Brain Harvest for 9 December 2009. He is of sf interest primarily for the Starfire sequence beginning with Starfire: A Red Peace (2017) being Space Opera set in a riven Galactic Empire; its protagonist finds an ancient artefact (see ...
Karta
Pseudonym of Australian author Charles Carter (1871-1951) for his Utopia, The Island of Justice (1901), set on an Island whose teetotal society enjoys a relatively moneyless economy, and electricity-enabled Inventions. [JC]
Nevala-Lee, Alec
(1980- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Inversus" in Analog for January-February 2004, and who has been associated with that magazine for most of his career, publishing there several supple Hard SF tales. His first series, the Icon Thief sequence [not listed below], focuses on nonfantastic detections that almost enter Technothriller country. He is ...
Carrington, Grant
(1938- ) US computer programmer, singer-songwriter and author who began publishing sf with "Night-Eyed Prayer" in Amazing for May 1971, though his later "After You've Stood on the Log at the Center of the Universe, What is There Left To Do?" (April 1974 Amazing) was more notable. With Thomas F Monteleone he wrote a play, U.F.O.! (performed 1979 Sandy Springs, Maryland), ...
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 ...