Sample of authors
Keeler, Harry Stephen
The American author Harry Stephen Keeler was one of a kind. He wrote some seventy novels that are a blend of crime fiction, science fiction and fantasy. They have been described as surreal and absurd, and some even as unreadable. He made up his own vocabulary and dialects, and he completely disregarded logical plotlines.
Keeler published nothing in English towards the end of his life, but a...
Literary figures
Henry (Jackson)
Gender: Male
He is a police officer in New York – in about 3,000 years from now! He is also – as the main character in one of Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi detective stories – something of a portal figure for that sub-genre. Elijah Bailey, who can panic because of agoraphobia, lost his mother at an early age, and as a consequence is very caring of his own family, his wife Jezebel, called Jessie, and his son Bentley. A...