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Russen, David
(? -? ) UK author whose life has not been traced in detail, though records from 1690 to 1703 point to a life in Kent, perhaps mostly in Hythe. He is of Proto-Sf interest for an extended book-review published in book form, ...
Jeffries, Sagan
Pseudonym of Canadian athlete and author Ed Lukowich (1946- ) whose curling career climaxed with the captainship of the 1986 team which won the World Curling Championship. In his sf novel, The Trillionist (2013) a Superman on another planet singlehandedly brings his culture up to Technological speed within a few decades, and begins to conquer space; at which point, he must defend his actions in a ...
Teitler, Stuart
(1940-2012) US bibliographer and bookseller, a specialist in the Lost Race novel, many of whose discoveries, some (though not all) amply described and synopsized, provided the substance of many entries in this encyclopedia. Although Lost-Race Fiction (2001), a version of the Bibliography he had been working on for many years, appeared privately before his death, it was not until its full publication as ...
Pattison, Eliot
(1951- ) US author most of whose fiction consists of thrillers in the Inspector Shan sequence. Ashes of Earth: A Mystery of Post-Apocalyptic America (2011), is set in a Post-Holocaust America twenty-five years after the country has been devastated by international terrorism. An original founder of the village of Carthage – now a harsh pocket Dystopia in which knowledge of the ...
Robinson, Spider
(1948- ) US-born author, in Canada from 1973 (a citizen from 2002); married to Jeanne Robinson from 1975 until her death in 2010. His first story, "The Guy with the Eyes" in Analog for February 1973, inaugurated the long-running Callahan series of Club Stories, which continued into the twenty-first century. He has sometimes written tales as by B D Wyatt. The first few ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book ...