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Piercy, Marge
(1936- ) US author who has become recognized as a significant voice of US Feminism, initially with Poetry in volumes like Breaking Camp (coll 1968) but more importantly in novels like Going Down Fast (1969) and Vida (1980). Her first sf novel, Dance the Eagle to Sleep (1970), deals with an attempt by a group of student revolutionaries to set up a loving, ...
Mizuki Wakako
(1953- ) Japanese comics creator whose works were striking in girls' sf Manga in the 1980s, finding suitable support to win two Seiun Awards after the inauguration of a comics category. Mizuki describes herself as a product of the first-wave of Japanese comics written by women for women (see Year 24 Group), who worked for a year as a bank clerk before ...
Mr
To avoid confusion over variant spellings, entries whose first word is "Mr" are listed as if that title were spelt out in full as "Mister". [JC/PN]
Sellman, Tamara Kaye
(? - ) US filmmaker, editor, journalist and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Shrapnel Over Chicago: August, 1989" in MOTA 3: Courage (anth 2003) edited by Karen Joy Fowler. The mixture of fiction and nonfiction forms in Intention Tremor: A Hybrid Collection (coll 2021 chap) is designed to dramatize her response to a 2013 diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. The tales ...
Randisi, Robert J
(1951-2024) US author, almost exclusively of nonfantastic thrillers and Westerns, more than 500 of the latter as by J R Roberts in his Clint Adams – The Gunsmith series, which did included the marginal Sasquatch Hunt (1983),in which Bigfoot is treated as a Monster. Sf was not central to his work or his wide influence in his chosen fields. He collaborated with Warren Murphy on ...
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 ...