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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 ...
Phantom from Space
Film (1953). Planet Filmways Inc. Directed by W Lee Wilder. Written by William Raynor and Myles Wilder, based on a story by Myles Wilder. Cast includes Rudolph Anders, Ted Cooper, Harry Landers, Noreen Nash and James Seay. 73 minutes. Black and white. / After a strange craft from space is observed approaching Santa Monica, there are reports of an unidentified man walking around in ...
Beekman, Doug
Working name of American artist Douglas L Beekman (1952- ). After briefly studying at the Columbus College of Art and Design in his home state of Ohio, he grew dissatisfied with the school and moved to New York City to complete his training at the School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League. He then began painting book covers, mostly for minor publishers; his first noteworthy effort, perhaps, was his cover for a 1977 edition of Philip K ...
Macdonald, Helen
(1970- ) UK naturalist and author, best known for H is for Hawk (2014), a memoir, a narrative of a year spent training a goshawk, and a study of T H White, whose The Goshawk (1951) is cited. They are of sf interest for Prophet (2023) with Sin Blaché, set in a Near Future world victimized by a ...
Hartmann, William K
(1939- ) US astronomer, painter and author mostly of nonfiction like The Grand Tour: A Travelers Guide to the Solar System (1981; rev 1993; rev 2005) with Ron Miller, Out of the Cradle: Exploring the Frontiers Beyond Earth (graph 1984) with Pamela Lee and Ron Miller, and In the Stream of Stars: The Soviet/American Space Art Book (graph 1990) with Ron ...
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 ...