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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
Butler, Andrew M
(? - ) UK academic and critic whose PhD from the University of Hull was published as Ontology and Ethics in the Writings of Philip K. Dick (1995); he returned to Philip K Dick with The Pocket Essential Philip K. Dick (2000), the first of several books he wrote in the Pocket Essentials series of short introductions. / Though his academic interests include various aspects of critical ...
Torrens, J M
(? -? ) New Zealand author and poet who should not be confused with the Catalan composer Josep Maria Torrens (1899-1986). His short Utopia, A Trip to Mars: "An Awful Venture": A Curious Message: Being a Copy of a Circular Addressed to the Inhabitants of this World, by Mr H(omo) V Mundo, the Late Visitor to the Planet Mars (in coll 1901), comprises the first section of the second edition of ...
Barclay, Linwood
(1955- ) US-born journalist and author, in Canada from the age of four; active from the late 1970s. Most of his work has been nonfantastic, including the Zack Walker thriller sequence beginning with Bad Move (2004) and No Time for Goodbye (2007), the singleton for which he remains best-known [these titles are not listed below]. His first work of sf interest is the Young Adult Chase sequence opening ...
Poyser, Victoria
Earlier name of the American artist now known as Victoria Lisi (1949- ), and the name used for her sf art. The former wife of sf fan Kennedy "Kippy" Poyser (1945-2009), she married artist Julius Lisi in 1987 and then went by Victoria Poyser-Lisi or Victoria (Poyser) Lisi before adopting her current name. She received a BFA from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and although she has attributed her interest in sf art to her attendance at the World Fantasy ...
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 ...