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Wayman, Tony Russell
(1929-?2005) UK-born journalist, scriptwriter and author who spent some years in Singapore, where he was actively involved in film-making; in the US since 1963. He began writing sf with the Dreamhouse sequence – World of the Sleeper (1967 dos) and Ads Infinitum (Being a Second Tale from the Dreamhouse) (1971) – which tells two associated tales. The first features a man from a 1994 dominated by Virtual Reality who ...
Madsen, Svend Ǻge
(1939- ) Danish author active in various genres since the early 1960s. After an early experimental stage, he wrote several novels that applied Equipoisal torsion to genres like crime and romantic fiction, in order to demonstrate their capacity, thus exposed, to subject reality in turm to a testing exposure; of sf interest in this context is Tugt og utugt i mellemtiden (1976; trans James M Ogler as ...
Jersild, P C
(1935- ) Swedish physician, journalist and author, member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences; active from the 1950s, author of more than forty books, Jersild is a central figure in modern Swedish literature, both a favourite among critics and, with some of his novels, a major bestseller. At the same time, throughout his writing, he has on the one hand utilized science fictional themes and tropes, and on the other, at least within Sweden ...
McConchie, Lyn
(1946- ) New Zealand author and farmer long active in Fandom, who began to publish professionally with "The Sar Shan Kelpie" in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy for Winter 1991 and has since been prolific in short fiction. Her first novel-length work was a Tie to Andre Norton's Witch World franchise, The Key of the Keplian (1994); this and its three successors ...
Staehle, Will
(? - ) US book designer and illustrator, active from around the turn of the twenty-first century, serving for a time as art director for HarperCollins Publishers. From the beginning his work has been characterized by a liking for geometrical forms, sometimes with flattened perspective, and often resembling posters (with the cartoonish wall presence and the articulate conveyance of desired information characteristic of that form); the effect, in the first ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its listing of Pseudonyms. ...