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Williams, Tess
(1954-2025) UK-born teacher, editor and author, in Australia for many years, there receiving a degree in literature from Curtin University and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Padwan Affair" in She's Fantastical (anth 1995) edited by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex. Of sf interest are two novels: Map of Power (1996), set mostly in a ...
Dunnett, Roisin
(? - ) UK author whose first book, Animal, Vegetable (coll 2021 chap), conflates the categories inferable from her title into an amalgam of exploratory fictions about the nature of flesh, alterity, sentience, Gender. The initial protagonist of her first novel, A Line You Have Traced (2025), a young woman surviving in the aftermath culture that succeeded ...
Belot, Adolphe
(1829-1890) Guadeloupe-born French playwright and author of popular fiction, mostly melodramatic, and probably too "racy" to be publishable in English during his lifetime. He is known in translation only for the Miss Poles sequence comprising La Sultane parisienne (1877) and La Vénus Noire: Voyage Dans l'Afrique Central (1877; trans George D Cox as The Black Venus: A Tale of the Dark Continent 1881), both volumes having been translated ...
Peddie, James
(? -? ) Scottish author, much of whose output was nonfiction under various names about games. His sf novel is Capture of London (1887 chap), in which the Invasion of London, after the general model of the Battle of Dorking tales, is in this case accomplished via a Channel tunnel. [JC]
Chambers, Whitman
(1896-1968) US screenwriter and author, active from about 1923, most of whose novels were Westerns or detective fiction; his Near Future sf tract, Invasion! (1943), is a Yellow Peril tale set in a World War Two Los Angeles (see California) invaded (see Invasion) by a Japanese expeditionary force ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...