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Heming, Jack
(1899-1987) UK author of a Lost Race tale, The Lost World of the Colorado (1940), whose young protagonists discover, on a high plateau, Monsters who display a weird caprice of Evolution: each of them combining the features of two real species. [JC]
Joseph, Mark
(1946- ) US author whose Technothriller, Mexico 21 (1990), deals with the Near Future threat posed by a nuclear submarine in the wrong place. [JC]
Gu Shi
(? - ) Chinese author and urban planner who first came to prominence around 2011, with a number of stories that remarkably worked within the local tradition of didactic science fiction (see China), and yet also asserted a poignant notion of the likely emotional and ethical impact of scientific progress. Critics have parsed this as a particularly "female" reaction to the boys' club of the genre in China, although Gu herself has ...
Donald, Matthew
(? - ) US author whose Megazoic sequence beginning with Megazoic (2017) combines Planetary Romance, Young Adult shenanigans and Space Opera, with dinosaurs as protagonists. Of perhaps greater interest is Teslanauts (2022), a Young Adult tale set in a ...
Dogs
The domestic dog may perhaps seem less science-fictional than the Cat, lacking the feline's aloofness and suggestion of the Alien; but humanity's traditional companion inevitably features in much sf. Indeed dogs are the Secret Masters of the world in "Into Your Tent I'll Creep" (September 1957 Astounding) by Eric Frank Russell, and the dog-human ...
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 ...