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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 ...
Stevens, Gordon
(1945- ) UK journalist, Television producer and author of political thrillers; of sf interest is And All the King's Men (1990), a Hitler Wins tale in set in an Alternate History Britain invaded by Germany in 1939; a resistance movement begins, and is successful by the middle of 1942. [JC]
Mouton, Eugène
(1823-1902) French magistrate and author who usually wrote as by Mérinos [sheep in French], though his own name also appears on later title pages; he was of Creole birth, was raised in Guadeloupe, and in so far as he may be deemed West Indian may be the first West Indian sf author, preceding M P Shiel in this distinction. Of the stories assembled in Fantaisies (coll 1883), "L'historioscope" (trans Brian ...
Posey, Carl A
(1933-2018) US editor and author of two Technothrillers: Kiev Footprint (1983), set in the Near Future with the Cold War still raging, and a secret Weapon in a space shuttle about to crash into the planet; and Prospero Drill (1984), an sf adventure for Robert Hale Limited involving ...
Technoroid Overmind
Japanese animated tv series (2023). Doga Kobo. Directed by Ka Hee Im. Written by Ayumi Sekine. Voice cast includes Daiki Hamano, Kayto, Takuya Kirimoto, Hiromu Mineta, Kenji Nojima, Asami Seto, Satoi Shibuya, Mutsumi Tamura and Kazuki Ura. Twelve 24-minute episodes. Colour. / In 2095 (see Near Future) Earth's population has plummeted owing to the effects of global warming (see ...
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 ...