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Mowll, Joshua
(1970- ) UK graphic artist and author of the Young Adult Guild of Specialists sequence, comprising Operation Red Jericho (2005), Operation Typhoon Shore (2006) and Operation Storm City (2008); set in the 1920s, the tales combine Lost Race and Steampunk conventions in a Ripping Yarns fashion that evokes comparisons to writers like ...
Schmidt, Bryan Thomas
(1969- ) US author who has written sf from a Christian point of view (see Religion), as in his major work to date, the Saga of Davi Rhii comprising The Worker Prince (2012), Rivalry on a Sky Course: A Davil Rhii Story (2012 ebook) and The Returning (2013), whose female protagonist vigorously copes with traditional Space Opera trials, but whose faith remains ...
Nicholas, J T
(? - ) US author whose New Lyons sequence beginning with SINthetic (2018) in which "Synths" (which is to say Androids) rebel from the condition of Slavery they have been manufactured for; the series, set primarily in New Orleans, focuses on Cyberpunk-inflected action. In Re-Coil (2020), a singleton ...
Brynner, Rock
Working name of US musician, actor, academic and author Yul Brynner Junior (1946-2023), "Rock" being a childhood nickname in honour of the boxer Rocky Graziano; his relationship with his father Yul Brynner (1920-1985) was complex but fruitful, resulting in two studies of that actor. The son is of sf interest for The Doomsday Report (1998), a very Near-Future Satire on the ...
Brown, Wenzell
(1911-1981) US author, mostly of mysteries, who published some sf in magazines, beginning with "Murderer's Chain" for Fantastic Universe, March 1960. His one sf novel, Possess and Conquer (1975), is a modestly competent tale of Paranoia linked to the threat of an alien Invasion. [JC]
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...