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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 ...
Massa, Mike
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "See of Darkness" in the Baen Books anthology Baen Books: Free Stories 2018 (anth 2018 ebook). His first full-length novel was The Valley of Shadows (2018) with John Ringo, set in the latter's Black Tide Rising Zombie/ ...
Far Future
The dutch sociologist and historian Fred Polak (1907-1985), in De toekomst is verleden tijd ["The Future Is Past Time"] (1955 2vols; trans Elise Boulding as The Image of the Future 1961 2vols; trans cut 1973), identifies two distinct categories of images of the distant future, which he calls the "future of prophecy" and the "future of destiny". Prophets, although they refer to the future, are primarily concerned with the present: they issue warnings about the ...
Nestle, Tom
(? - ) US author, of whom nothing is known under this name beyond a soft-porn Space Opera, Orgies in Space (1978; vt Star Whores 1978 as by A J Rimmer; vt Space Whores 1979 as by Rimmer). [JC]
Weird Terror
US Comic (1952-1954). 13 issues. Allen Hardy Associates. Artists include Don Heck, Pete Morisi and Rudy Palais. Script writers include Burr Dett and Ellen Ludwell. 36 pages. Four strips per issue, plus one or two short text stories or non-fiction pieces (one is a glossary of such terms as Cockatrice, Demonology and Sadism). There were several reprints: #12 and #13's strips consisted entirely of these, whilst other issues even reused strips from earlier issues of the ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...