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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author, active from around 1950, several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
Sauma, Luiza
(? - ) Brazilian-born author in UK from early childhood, whose sf novel, Everything You Ever Wanted (2019), carries its adult but millennial protagonist from a distressed Near Future Earth via Wormhole on a sponsored one-way emigration, limited to 100 applicants, to the planet Nyx (see Colonization of Other Worlds), which she ...
Men into Space
US tv series (1959-1960). CBS-TV. Produced by Lewis J Rachmil. Writers included Jerome Bixby, Meyer Dolinsky, David Duncan and Ib Melchior. Directors included Alan Crosland Jr, Nathan Juran, and Lee Sholem. Writers included Jerome Bixby, Stuart J Byrne, Mike ...
Lovin, Roger
(1941-1991) US journalist and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Apostle" (in Flame Tree Planet: An Anthology of Religious Science-Fantasy, anth 1973, edited by Roger Elwood; much exp as Apostle 1978), which is Christian sf, describing the conversion of an entire Alien planet by a Christ-figure (see Religion). He also wrote as by ...
Hamilton, Todd Cameron
(1962- ) US illustrator and author who first published artwork in Fandom venues, notably interior art as Todd Hamilton for the Worldcon publication Chicon IV Program Book (anth 1982) edited anonymously. He went on to create cover art for various titles including John Varley's Blue Champagne (coll 1986), which he also illustrated throughout; several issues ...
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 ...