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Murray, Will
Working name of US author William Patrick Murray (1953-2026), who showed an interest throughout his career in Superheroes of the Pulp tradition (on which he was a known authority) such as Doc Savage, about which figure he wrote the nonfiction Secrets of Doc Savage (1981 chap). In this context he had been literary agent for Lester Dent's estate since 1979. ...
Galactic Saga
Videogame series (from 1979). Brøderbund Software (BS). Designed by Douglas Carlston. / Of the four games in the Galactic Saga, by far the best known is the first, Galactic Empire (1979 BS, TRS80; 1980 AppleII; 1981 Atari8; rev 1994 Mac). This is perhaps the earliest commercial Videogame in which the player's goal is to build a ...
Gloss, Molly
(1944- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Joining" (June 1984 F&SF); much of her later fiction comprises historical novels set in her native Oregon, and her first book – Outside the Gates (1986), a Young Adult fantasy – is also set in a world both mountainous and pastoral. Her first sf novel, The Dazzle of Day (1997), is set mostly in a ...
Eskridge, Kelley
(1960- ) US author who has lived with Nicola Griffith from about 1988. She began publishing work of genre interest with "Hum of Human Cities" for Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine #9, Fall 1990. In her first sf novel, the Near Future Solitaire (2002), a young woman trapped in a complex conflict – between an intermittently ruthless ...
Chu, John
(? - ) Taiwan-born translator, podcast "narrator" and author, in the USA from the age of six; he began to publish work of genre interest with "Thirty Seconds from Now" in The Time Traveler's Almanac (anth 2013) edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer. He has since published short stories widely; The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere (2013 ebook) won ...
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 ...