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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
Garner, Alan
(1934- ) UK author whose early work was primarily for children; he has lived all his life near Alderley Edge, Cheshire, the setting for nearly all his fiction. Garner is widely thought one of the finest, though most difficult, children's writers of his generation; he ceased publishing for younger audiences after about 1980; after a long hiatus, he published two adult novels, Strandloper (1996) and Thursbitch (2003), each of them ...
McCoy, Max
(1958- ) US journalist and author whose novel – Jesse: A Novel of the Outlaw Jesse James (1999), in which the outlaw survives to tell his story to Mark Twain – veers close to Alternate History. Of his other work, a series of Ties to the Indiana Jones Shared World series, derived from but not replicating the film ...
Bleiler, Everett F
(1920-2010) US editor, bibliographer and critic who for many years remained best known as the compiler of The Checklist of Fantastic Literature: A Bibliography of Fantasy, Weird and Science Fiction Books Published in the English Language (1948; rev vt The Checklist of Science-Fiction and Supernatural Fiction 1978), which Shasta Publishers was founded to produce. The Checklist, which lists 5000 books from the period 1800-1948, ...
Dynamic Science Stories
US Pulp magazine, a short-lived companion to Marvel Science Stories. 2 issues, February 1939 and April/May 1939, published by Western Fiction Publishing Corporation; edited by Robert O Erisman (1908-1995). The first issue featured the novel Lord of Tranerica (February 1939; 1966) by Stanton A Coblentz; the second issue included stories by L Sprague ...
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 ...