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Ruse, Gary Alan
(1946- ) US author who began publishing sf with "Nanda" in Analog for August 1972. Houndstooth (1975) features a spy Dog with a Computer implant that allows its human handlers to see through its eyes; A Game of Titans (1976), a Technothriller, hovers at the edge of the fantastic; The Gods of Cerus Major (1982), ...
Palmer, J H
(? -? ) US author of The Invasion of New York; Or, How Hawaii Was Annexed (1897) a Near Future Yellow Peril novel in which Japan mounts a surprise attack against America, occupies Hawaii, and with its ally Spain threatens New York; but is defeated. The book ends with a paean to America's Manifest Destiny. [JC]
Cooper, Parley J
(1937- ) US author in various genres under various names, with an emphasis on horror. Of sf interest is The Feminists (1971) (see Feminism), which describes a Dystopian state in which women have made slaves of men, who duly revolt. [JC]
Terrell, Heather
(1969- ) US lawyer and author, initially of historical romances, then of Young Adult paranormal romances, and more recently of the Books of Eva sequence beginning with Relic (2013), set initially in an Arctic Near Future Dystopian City after a great Disaster has transformed the world into a ...
Fanac Fan History Project, The
This project, launched in 1994, aims to preserve the history of sf and Fandom – in particular Fanzines and Convention publications – and make its ever-increasing archive available online at its website Fanac.org, active since 1996. It is sponsored by the Florida Association for Nucleation and Conventions, Inc, which organized the 1992 Worldcon and whose acronym FANAC is the long-established ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...