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Williams, Tess
(1954-2025) UK-born teacher, editor and author, in Australia for many years, there receiving a degree in literature from Curtin University and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Padwan Affair" in She's Fantastical (anth 1995) edited by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex. Of sf interest are two novels: Map of Power (1996), set mostly in a ...
Newcomb, Cyrus F
(1831-1905) US author presumed to have written The Book of Algoonah: Being a Concise Account of the History of the Early People of the Continent of America, Known as Mound Builders (1884) anonymous, a Prehistoric SF tale in which America is colonized by Assyrians and other explorers from the Middle-East; their culture boasts some elements of advanced science and Technology, but is eventually submerged. There has ...
Mitchison, Naomi
(1897-1999) Scottish polemicist and author who married G R "Dick" Mitchison just before his return to the front; her own World War One service, as an auxiliary nurse, included caring for him in a French hospital; sister of J B S Haldane. She was known mainly for her work outside the sf field, which she entered late; her bibliography [see links below] includes over 100 books and over ...
Amazing Transparent Man, The
Film (1960). Miller Consolidated Pictures, American International Pictures. Directed by Edgar G Ulmer. Produced by Lester D Guthrie. Written by Jack Lewis. Special effects by Roger George. Cast includes Marguerite Chapman, Gloria Daniel, James Griffith, Douglas Kennedy, Boyd "Red" Morgan and Ivan Treisault. 57 minutes. Black and white. / Insane former US Army Major Paul Krenner (Griffith) has safecracker Joey Faust (Kennedy) broken ...
Knudtsen, Ingar, Jr
(1944- ) One of Norway's most popular and productive sf authors, with thirty books to his credit. Since childhood he had been interested in astronomy and space exploration, and always did his best to keep the scientific details in his writing as correct as possible. His style was highly visual, with short, descriptive sentences which efficiently moved the story forward. He often wrote from a Feminist point of view, ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...