Kathleen Sky (born Kathleen Mckinney, August 5, 1943) is Kathleen Mckinney Goldin. From 1972 to 1982 she was married to fellow author/collaborator Stephen Goldin. Her pen name is her former married name from her marriage to first husband Karl Sky. She appeared as an Enterprise crewmember in Star Trek: The motion picture. Kathleen Sky has …
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HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – T. JACKSON KING?
T(homas) Jackson King was born in Houston on May 24th 1948. He’s a professional poet, archaeologist, investigative journalist, and author. (Yet another born in the 1940s, and who carries on several professions.) King’s first book, Retread Shop, appeared in 1988 from Warner Books under the Questar imprint. If you liked Stephen Goldin’s Jade Darcy books …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – BEE BALDWIN?
Bee Baldwin was born in England in 1920. During WWII she served in the Casualty Service, then in the ATS, before marrying and in 1956, she, her husband, and their two children emigrated to New Zealand. In 1965 her first book, an SF disaster/post holocaust novel, appeared from Robert Hale. Bee Baldwin is one of …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – JOHN CHRISTOPHER?
John Christopher (real name Christopher Samuel Youd) was born in Lancashire on April 16th 1922. His surname is of Dutch Origin. Writing as John Christopher, the British author is best known for his SF (adult and YA) novels which have won a number of awards. For completists – Youd has written under his own name, …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – SANDRA MIESEL?
Ms Miesel, born in 1941, holds Master’s degrees in Biochemistry and Medieval History. She is predominantly a non-fiction writer who has produced a number of very valuable works examining the writings of others both in and out of the SF field – and I do recommend most of them. However in one way she had …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED J. T. McINTOSH
J. T. McIntosh (born Feb. 14, 1925 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland) was a pseudonym used by Scottish writer and journalist James Murdoch MacGregor. MacGregor used the pseudonym for all his science fiction work, which was the majority of his output, though he did publish some books under his own name. I think that his book, …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – JOY CHANT?
This is the pen name for Eileen Joyce (Joy) Rutter, born January 13th 1945 in the UK. Joy Chant is best known for her three fantasy books in The Vandarei saga. Chant’s first book, RED MOON AND BLACK MOUNTAIN appeared in England in 1971 from Allen and Unwin and won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award the …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – DAVID PALMER?
It seems to me that the 1940s must have been a terrific decade for the birth of SF writers. Another, born in the same decade as Sandra Miesel, Claudia Edwards, Ru Emerson and William Burkett, was David Palmer born in Chicago in 1941. His first book originally appeared, as a number of fine books have …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – CLAUDIA J. EDWARDS
Claudia J(ane) Edwards was born in 1943 and died (so at least one site claims) six months after the release of her fourth book. I can find almost nothing on her either as a person or an author save that she was married to Tex Hill. What I do know is that she produced a …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – KEITH ROBERTS?
Keith(John Kingston)Roberts was born 20th September 1935 and died October 5th 2000. His first work appeared as short stories in Science Fantasy magazine in 1964. He is known mainly for two novels, The Furies, (1966) and Pavane (1968), although he continued to write into the late 1980s. Roberts also worked as an illustrator and his …