William Gilmour (writer)

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William Gilmour
OccupationShort story writer, novelist
Genre Lost race, fantasy

William Gilmour is a writer of lost race fantasy short stories and novels. A key figure in the Edgar Rice Burroughs pastiche community, [1] he published Tarzan pastiches in the magazine Burroughs Bulletin. [2] His lost race novel, The Undying Land was published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1985. [3]

Notes

  1. Hale, Laura. "A History of Male Involvement in the Fan Fiction Community". The Fanfic Symposium. Archived from the original on 2008-06-04. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  2. "Vern Coriell's Burroughs Bulletins Original Series Part I Volumes 1 - 25". ERBZine. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  3. Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 331.

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