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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
Garis, Howard R
(1873-1962) US author active from about 1896, known mainly for such work outside the sf field as his Uncle Wiggily series, which began in 1910 in the Newark Evening News, and ran to more than 11,000 widely syndicated episodes, some of which were gathered into the seventy-nine published volumes in the series; the newspaper column, in various late incarnations, only stopped in the year of his death; this aspect of his career closely paralleled that of his near contemporary Thornton ...
Manson, Marilyn
US rock singer, born Bryan Hugh Warner (1969- ), probably better known for his calculatedly outrageous offstage behaviour then his music, though he has numerous devoted followers. His eponymous band's album Mechanical Animals (1998) is a Ziggy Stardust-style concept album about an Alien who is captured on Earth, and turned into a Drug-addled rock star. In tandem with the Bowie-inspired theme, the music ...
Jim Baen's Universe
US professional Online Magazine published by Baen Books and edited by Eric Flint, with Mike Resnick from April 2007. It ran for 24 bimonthly issues from June 2006 to April 2010 and was regarded as a model of its kind. James Baen, who had previously edited Galaxy as well as the anthology/magazine series ...
Meredith, Geoffrey
(? - ) UK author of a Near Future sf novel for older children, The Radium Rebels (1946), in which a vein of hyper-rich radium (see Elements) allows its discoverer, a megalomaniac Mad Scientist, to invent various Weapons – including Ray guns and thousands of radium-driven one-person winged ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...