Jamaica

==Lucie-Smith, Edward==
Edward Lucie-Smith, Jamaica-born author, poet, art curator/critic and editor, in the UK from 1946, whose most notable genre contribution is his compilation of the important early sf Poetry anthology Holding Your Eight Hands: An Anthology of Science Fiction Verse (anth 1969). 
==Roberts, W Adolphe==
W Adolphe Roberts (1886-1962) Jamaican editor, poet, journalist and author, in USA 1904-1949, initially involved in American literary life, who also wrote as by Stephen Endicott; his first book, Pierrot Wounded (coll 1919) was a volume of poems inspired by his apparently unfulfilled relationship with Edna St Vincent Millay; in his later career he became a significant advocate for Jamaican independence. He is credited as having written the first African American mystery novel in English, The Haunting Hand (1929), a weird fiction with hints of the supernatural. Of more direct sf interest is The Mind Reader: A Mystery (July 1927-January 1928 Ghost Stories; 1929), whose protagonist must combat his Antihero brother's attempts to use his occultish Psi Powers to rule the world. 
==Wheeler, Paul==
Paul Wheeler, Jamaican-born UK author in whose The Friendly Persuaders (1968) benign-seeming Aliens from the planet Tarax appear in London and, offering promises of universal peace and free love, are soon swept into governmental power by a surge of popular acclaim. Inevitably this low-key Invasion conceals a more sinister agenda; one man's dogged resistance leads to revelations and reversals.
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