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Fuller, Claire
(1967- ) UK sculptor and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "All Clear in the Anderton House" in After the Fall: Tales of the Apocalypse (anth 2014) edited anonymously. Her first four novels share a sense of dread that the ground may not hold, either in their protagonists' fragile lives, or in planetary terms, somewhere down the line. This aura may be most explicit in the first of these, Our Endless Numbered Days (2015), ...
Caspian, Jonatha Ariadne
(1960- ) US author of a game Tie, Torg: The Possibility Wars #3: The Nightmare Dream (1991), based on Torg (1990). Fittingly, it is unambitious. [JC]
Mears, A Garland
(circa 1842-1920) UK author active in the 1890s whose Utopia, Mercia, the Astronomer Royal: A Romance (1895), set a century hence in 2002, frames within a burdensome romantic plot its description of a Europe dominated by Germanic "races", with equality for women (see Feminism), advances in Technology, and something like Psi Powers. [JC]
Hagerty, Neil
(1965- ) US musician and occasional author, best known as one half (with his then partner Jennifer Herrema) of the influential alternative rock band Royal Trux. His sole novel to date, Victory Chimp (1997), follows the titular primate across the Multiverse, attempting to free his race from oppression, in a Drug-addled non-linear style seemingly indebted to William S ...
Campbell, Ramsey
(1946- ) UK author, primarily of Horror, son-in-law of A Bertram Chandler; he has also published as Montgomery Comfort and Jay Ramsey, and under the House Names Carl Dreadstone and E K Leyton. His earliest work, dating from 1957 to 1963 (but not then released professionally), was assembled as two ...
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 ...