I found three people for today’s article, I decided I’d leave the two Japanese men for the moment and have a brief look at the Israeli guy. Nir Yaniv is pretty young having only been born in 1972. He’s pretty talented being an author, editor and musician. If you visit ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
X is a very interesting letter and I wondered to myself last night who I could possibly find to fill today’s void. My first stop was SF Encyclopedia where I found five entries, they all appear to be pen names, one is female and the person who seemed to fit the bill for me ...
Jack Wodhams is Australian! I’ve found another Australian science fiction author…I know there are plenty of you out there but I’ve never really worried about the country of the author when reading so finding out where they live has been an interesting experience. Wodhams wasn’t actually born in Australia but came ...
The World of Null-A I thought van Vogt would be a good person to do today as I have some of his books on our shelves…yes, well, I still need to find them. I have memories of seeing them in the dim, dark past but I cannot find them today ...
Just like me I’m sure you’re asking lots of ‘wh’ questions. Born in 1958 he is a Romanian science fiction author and journalist but I won’t hold that last bit against him. Romanian has a burgeoning science fiction community. Whenever I have an awkward letter to fill I end up finding a ...
Theodore L. Thomas AKA Cosgwell Thomas AKA Leonard Lockard AKA Ted Thomas AKA T. L. Thomas AKA Theodore Lockhard Thomas AKA Theo. L. Thomas. I think that’s all, I got this from multiple sources so there could well be more. 1920 to 2005, writer of more than 50 science fiction short stories as well ...
I picked Olaf Stapledon a few weeks ago when I came across his name somewhere and now I can’t remember where. I was already familiar with the name but can’t find anything on my shelves to back that up, I suspect I read his books in my dim, dark past ...
I was thrilled to the back teeth when I found Eric Frank Russell last night, I’d never heard of him before but one of my favourite magazines was mentioned on his Wikipedia entry as Further Reading! They’re talking about an article by Jacob Edwards titled Overlooked: The Non-fiction of Eric Frank ...
I thought I’d have trouble with Q but I ended up with a choice of six authors! Refusing to do all of them I made a choice to do Thanas Qerama just because he’s an Albanian author and it tickled my fancy to write about an Albanian author. Of course, I then struggled ...
Researching which author to showcase is always an interesting exercise. Today it meant looking through some of my pulp fiction magazines and finding three possible names: Lawrence A Perkins; Arthur Porges and; John T Phillifent. I eventually settled on Phillifent and has authored three of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. books so ...
Who? I hear you say, and well you might. Fitz-James O’Brien seems to be a rather obscure author to me but according to all sources he’s considered a forerunner to modern science fiction, born in 1828 and dying in 1862 it puts him well before Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. ...
Yes, I know this is Doug Naylor and Rob Grant, just deal with it. This writing duo write well separately but together they are dynamite. The Robert Llewellyn who played Kryten in Red Dwarf complained about the writing and how challenging it was to memorise as it was so unique and so free ...
Who else would I do for M but our own George R. R. Martin? I did consider Michael Moorcock but I couldn’t find any of his books on my shelf and felt that was the deciding factor. I must have read some of Martin’s work over the years as he’s been published in ...
Stanislaw Lem was born in Lwow, Poland and wrote in his native tongue of Polish, he was translated into more than 41 languages and I’m so glad I’m not the poor sucker doing the translating as he used elaborate word formation, alien or robotic poetry and puns all of which ...
I’ve got this fabulous book on my shelf which I’m not going to share with you today! I pulled it off the shelf to see if I could find someone for J, I’m excited to tell you I haven’t missed a letter yet…a day but not a letter. Carl Richard Jacobi ...