HOLLAND, Stephen

(1962-)

   UK bibliographer and critic who has also scripted some COMICS, including a 1989 story for The Cursed Land and a 1990 story for Computer Killer. His main work has been in the almost infinitely perplexing fieldof post-WWII UK paperback publishers and authors, and he has done much to clarify the two decades after 1945, a period rife with pseudonymous titles, ephemeral publications, fly-by-night publishers and reticent authors. His bibliographical studies, most of them short but illuminating, include Scion and Dragon Books (1984 chap), Modern Fiction (1984 chap), Curtis Warren and Grant Hughes (1985 chap), John Spencer and Badger Books(1985 chap), Gaywood Press, Compact Books and Hank Janson Publishers (1986 chap), Piccadilly Novels (1986 chap), Digit Books (1986 chap), Brown Watson (1986 chap), R. \& L.W. Locker/Harborough/Archer (1987 chap),Viking/WDL/Consul (1987 chap), Hamilton \& Panther (1987 chap), The Sexton Blake Library (1988 chap), Paul Renin: A Bibliographical Checklist (1990 chap), The Gramol Group (1990 chap) and The Mike Western Story (1990 chap). The Trials of Hank Janson (1991) and The Fleetway Companion (anth in 2 vols 1992) were more commodious presentations of this material. His work as a whole has been summarized in two linked volumes, Vultures of the Void: A History of British Science Fiction, 1946-1956 (1992 US) andBritish Science Fiction Paperbacks, 1949-1956 (1992 US), both with Philip HARBOTTLE. He has contributed several entries to this encyclopedia.

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