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Armstrong, Jennifer
(1961- ) US author, almost exclusively fiction and nonfiction for children and the Young Adult audience, almost none of this output (approximately 50 titles) being of sf interest. But the remarkable Young Adult Fire-Us sequence comprising Fire-Us, Book 1: The Kindling (2002), Fire-Us, Book 2: The Keepers of the Flame (2002) and Fire-Us, Book 3: The Kiln (2003), ...
Canter, Mark
(1952- ) US author whose Ember from the Sun (1995) combines elements of Prehistoric SF and the Lost World genre in the tale of a doctor who discovers the body of a pregnant, recently dead Neanderthal woman in Alaska, and implants the foetus in a human mother. The child, the eponymous Ember, grows up immune to cold, with paranormal (see Psi Powers) ...
Foster, George C
(1893-1975) UK author, in active service during World War One, who also published as by Seaforth; his first novel of genre interest, The Lost Garden (1930), is a fantasy in which Immortal survivors of Atlantis experience world history up to the present, finding little of significance to remark upon. In almost all his speculative fiction, conventional plots are twisted to make room for ...
Cornell, Paul
(1967- ) UK author, who initially became known for his association with Doctor Who. His first professionally published work was Timewyrm: Revelation (1991), the fourth in the New Adventures sequence continuing the Doctor Who mythos after the cancellation of its television incarnation in 1989. In this and subsequent books – especially Love and War (1992) and Human Nature (1995) ...
Starforce: Alpha Centauri
Board and counter Wargame (1974). Simulations Publications Inc (SPI). Designed by Redmond Simonsen. / Probably the first widely popular science fiction Wargame, Starforce is a game of non-lethal interstellar combat, played on a hexagonal grid map with cardboard counters. The game is set in a detailed Future History which features frequent ...
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 ...