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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Temianka, Dan
(? - ) US author and critic who began to publish work of genre interest with reviews of Jack Vance in Fantasy Review for June 1986 as Daniel Temianka. His major critical publication is The Jack Vance Lexicon: From Ahulph to Zipangote: The Coined Words of Jack Vance (1992; vt The Jack Vance Lexicon: The Coined Words of Jack Vance, from Ahulph to Zipangote 1995; ...
Jones, Nick
(1972- ) UK author whose first series, the Downstream Diaries sequence beginning with Downstream (2014 ebook), comprises a first assay at the Time Travel intricacies more fully espoused in the Joseph Bridgeman sequence, beginning with And Then She Vanished (2021) and featuring the same protagonist. In the first iteration of the series, a London antique dealer is inveigled ...
Edric, Robert
Pseudonym of UK author Gary Edric Armitage (1956- ), who began his career as G E Armitage with a nonfantastic novel, A Season of Peace (1985), continuing for two decades during which at least fifteen more novels, all but the first as Robert Edric, were released. They are all nonfantastic, though The Broken Lands (1992), about the fatal Arctic expedition headed by Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), pushes to the edge of ...
McEnroe, Richard S
(1956- ) US author and literary agent who began writing sf with "Wolkenheim Fairday" in Asimov's for May 1980. His first two novels were Ties to the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century universe, the first being Buck Rogers Universe: Niven and Pournelle's Buck Rogers: Warrior's World (1981); both were based on outlines by Larry ...
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 ...