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Hekkanen, Ernest
(1947- ) US-born author, in Canada from 1969, active from the early 1980s; much of his fiction brushes against the water margins of Fantastika, evoking a range of associations from Magic Realism to Franz Kafka. He is of sf interest for Dementia Island (1999), set in a hazily Near Future Dystopia whose ...
Melko, Paul
(1968- ) US author whose education was in nuclear engineering, and who began publishing work of genre interest with "Dysfunctional Family Cat" for Aberrations #39 in 1996; as his fiction focuses on problem-solving (see Hard SF; Thought Experiment) and tends to reward problem-solvers with solutions helpful to them and/or the world at large, he can be understood as an inheritor of the mode and thrust ...
Gjærevold, Einar
(1961- ) Norwegian journalist, television and film producer and author. In 1980-1981 he published two issues of the semi-professional SF Magazine Bizarr Science Fiction/Bizarr Mortem (Ragnar Rognlien being co-editor on #2); other Fanzines of his include Epilog, Stellar Express and the one-shots Eta Carina Razzmatazz and ...
Pepper's Adventures in Time
Videogame (1993). Sierra On-Line. Designed by Gano Haine, Jane Jensen, Josh Mandel, Lorelei Shannon. Platforms: DOS, Win. / Pepper's Adventures in Time is a graphical Adventure marketed as edutainment for Young Adults which many older players have also found appealing. Participants alternate between the roles of the eponymous character, a sassy young ...
Pape, Richard
(1916-1995) UK author of various books including his bestselling wartime autobiography, Boldness Be My Friend (1953), and a number of thrillers. In And So Ends the World ... (1961), arrogant mankind is given a severe warning from high-up cosmic sources – the Moon disappears – and comes to its senses. The novel is more mysticism than sf. [JC]
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 ...