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Franklin, H Bruce
(1934-2024) US critic and academic, a cultural historian in various positions at Stanford University from 1961, in that year giving one of the earliest university courses in sf in the USA. In 1972, despite holding tenure, he was dismissed by Stanford for making speeches allegedly inciting students to riot against the university's involvement in the Vietnam War – a case well known to those interested in questions of academic freedom. He became full professor, again with tenure, at Rutgers ...
Martin, Les
Working name of US author Lester Martin Schulman (1934- ), whose work consists almost exclusively of Ties, most of these being contributions for younger readers to the X-Files universe, beginning with X Marks the Spot (1995) in the X-Files Young Readers sub-series. Martin has done similar work for the Indiana Jones universe (see ...
Phillips, Tony
A House Name used for the Turbo Cowboys sequence of Post-Holocaust tales for Ballantine Books. Designed for the Young Adult market, the series – which begins with Turbo Cowboys #1: Jump Start (1988) and ends with Turbo Cowboys #10: City of Glass (1990) – emphasizes the proactive friendship among the four young ...
Long, Meg
(? - ) US teacher, content designer and author whose first novel, the Young Adult Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves (2022), combines a Space Opera backstory, which describes how a desolate ice-planet had been mined to death by interstellar corporations, with an Planetary Romance storyline featuring a young protagonist impelled to make a ...
de Pawlowski, Gaston
(1874-1933) French publisher and author active from 1894, much of his early work being humorous, and many of his early short pieces being spoof descriptions of impossible or unlikely Inventions. Of greater sf interest is Voyage au pays de la quatrième dimension (1912; exp 1923; trans Brian Stableford as Journey to the Land of the Fourth Dimension 2009), a complex, episodic ...
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 ...