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Simone, Nina
Working name of US singer, pianist, composer and civil rights activist Eunice Kathleen Waymon (1933-2003), widely celebrated as a writer and performer in jazz and R&B. Her one excursion into sf, "22nd Century", was recorded in 1971 but only made available in the box set The Complete RCA Album Collection (2011). It is a remarkable, near ten-minute, stream-of-consciousness depiction of a Near Future after a bloody revolution in 1988 and plague in ...
Powe, Bruce
(1925-2018) Canadian author whose sf novels concentrate on political disorders, a theme very common to post-World War Two writers from his country. Killing Ground: The Canadian Civil War (1968) as by Ellis Portal sets its fatal conflict in Near Future Canada, where separatist unrest leads to Quebec's independence and an American Invasion of Canada, which is repelled. ...
White, Clara E
(1875-1905) UK-born medium and author, in US from an early age; she is of some interest for the Theosophy-tinged The Romance of the Red Star: A Biography of the Earth (1901), which focuses on the early stages of humanity's pre-ordained ascent (see Prehistoric SF). [JC]
Freeman, Gaail
(? - ) US author of Alien Thunder (1982), which is Young Adult sf. [JC]
Lang, Andrew
(1844-1912) Scottish anthropologist and man of letters well known for a wide range of literary activity, including novels, poetry, belles-lettres, children's books and (perhaps most familiar to current readers) Anthologies of traditional fables and tales retold for children, with some added hagiographical and historical material, much of the work being done by his wife; numerous volumes followed the first of these, The Blue Fairy Book (anth 1889). ...
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 ...