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Like, Russel
(? - ) US author of two humorous sf tales: After the Blue (1998), a Satire in which Aliens try to reconstruct human civilization from media records; and A Bowl of Fruit, a Whale in the Woods (2003), featuring high jinks in Alternate Worlds. [JC]
Beyond Centauri
US quarterly Print Magazine of science fiction and fantasy, aimed at younger readers, one of a number of similar low-paying magazines published by the now defunct Sam's Dot Publishing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa and edited by Tyree Campbell. It appeared on a regular quarterly schedule for 39 issues from July 2003 to January 2013. It was published in letter-size format and usually ran to 36 pages with large print and illustrations, plus copious poetry, so the total ...
Vallée, Jacques
(1939- ) French Computer scientist, UFO speculator and author, in US from 1962, a multidisciplinary figure who is of initial interest for his early sf novels, beginning with Le Sub-Espace ["Subspace"] (1961) as by Jérôme Sériel. The Professor Lesage sequence, beginning with Alintel: la première enquête du Professeur Lesage ["Alintel: Professor Lesage's ...
Daumal, René
(1908-1944) French poet and author, his early poetry similar to but in some ways oppositional to late 1920s Surrealism, perhaps through narrative impulses that well up through his work. He is specifically of sf interest for his unfinished second novel, Le Mont Analogue: Roman d'aventures alpines, euclidiennes et symboliquement authentiques (1952; trans Roger Shattuck as Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing ...
Stephensen-Payne, Phil
(1952- ) UK bibliographer who regularly supplied UK publishing data to Locus from 1986 to the beginning of 1994, and who has compiled, often in collaboration with Gordon Benson Jr, a number of extremely useful "working Bibliographies" of sf writers, including Poul Anderson (with Benson), Brian W Aldiss, John ...
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 ...