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Moore, Chris

(1947-2025) Prolific UK artist, known to the public primarily for his hard-edged treatment of Hard SF subjects, although in fact he produced covers in different styles for all sorts of other genres as well, including illustrations of record sleeves for artists as diverse as Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo and Pentangle. What impressed most about Moore's sf art was not just the photographic realism but the sense of scale, achieved largely through a ...

Leonard, Paul

Working name of UK author Paul J Leonard Hinder (1961-    ), who has also published as P J L Hinder, though his output of Ties for the Doctor Who universe has appeared exclusively under his working name, beginning with Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures: Venusian Lullaby (1994). These novels, which Leonard has declared were much influenced by the example of Jim ...

Riley, Terry

(1935-    ) US composer, one of the most influential and enduring figures associated with minimalist music from the 1960s onwards, as evidenced by much-recorded pieces such as In C (1963), though much of his subsequent work strays far from minimalist orthodoxy. He was also a pioneer of electronic composition, most famously A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969). Sun Rings (original multimedia presentation 2002, first full recording ...

Cutter, R H

(?   -?   ) UK author known only for a Lost Race novel, Reached at Last: A Romance of Nineteenth Century Science Chivalrous Endurance and Perseverance with a Sequel (1886), unusually for this sub-genre set in the Near Future, in which an expedition to the North Pole, travelling in an advanced Airship, comes across a civilized Utopia ...

Millership, Richard

(?   -    ) Australian author of Dagger Dark (1997), a Near Future tale set in the decayed New York of 2018, where an almost supernaturally powerful Drug known as Dagger strips its users of their civilized "human" veneer, turning them into mass murderers. [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 ...



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