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Sallis, James
(1944-2026) US musician, poet and author, briefly active in New Worlds during its Michael Moorcock-directed New-Wave phase; he began to publish work of genre interest in this context with "Kazoo" (August 1967 New Worlds) and co-edited the magazine 1968-1969. His clearly acknowledged models in the French avant garde and the gnomic brevity of much of his work ...
Asprin, Robert Lynn
(1946-2008) US author, married from 1982 to 1993 to Lynn Abbey; he began publishing sf with his first novel, The Cold Cash War (1977), which alarmingly conflates Game-World antics (like fake Wars between mercenaries representing rival corporations on rented turf – Brazil, for instance, being visualized mainly as an arena for world-dominating firms to play games in) and a political ...
Cooke, Arthur
Collaborative pseudonym used on "The Psychological Regulator" (March 1941 Comet) by C M Kornbluth, Robert Lowndes, John B Michel, Elsie Balter (1910-1996) – later Elsie Wollheim – and Donald A Wollheim. [JC] links / ...
Forgotten, The
Film (2004). Revolution Studios presents a Jinks/Cohen Company production. A Joseph Ruben film. Directed by Joseph Ruben. Written by Gerald DiPego. Cast includes Julianne Moore, Linus Roache, Gary Sinise, Dominic West and Alfre Woodard. 91 minutes. Colour. / Given a dramatic weight that it does not deserve by the performance of Julianne Moore, one of the finer actors of her generation, The Forgotten promises an intriguing reality-bending drama but quickly dissolves into a poor ...
Leimbach, Marti
(1963- ) US author, almost entirely of nonfantastic novels, often with a focus on Medicine and the complex traumas of illness, with an emphasis on neurological conditions. The best known of these tales are probably Dying Young (1990) and Daniel Isn't Talking (2006); both were filmed. Leimbach is of sf interest for the Near Future Young Adult ...
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 ...