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Singer, Judith
(? - ) US author of Threshold (1975), a Science Fantasy tale which traces the quest of three separate protagonists, one of them a Cyborg, across the eponymous threshold into an Inner Space confrontation. [JC]
Stevens, Jessi Jezewska
(1990- ) US author, resident in Geneva, Switzerland; most of her work, including several stories published since around 2010, is nonfantastic; her first novel, The Exhibition of Perephone Q (2020), approaches the fantastic in its examination of life in New York in terms of Identity theft. Her second novel, The Visitors (2022), Equipoisally assesses the ...
McLandburgh, Florence
(1850-1934) US author, who wrote poetry as by McLandburgh Wilson. In The Automaton Ear and Other Stories (coll 1876), the title story "The Automaton Ear" (May 1873 Scribner's Monthly) is of sf interest for its description of a device capable – since sound never in fact dies – of recovering all the sounds that ever existed; the sonic equivalent of a Time Viewer. [JC]
Kennedy, James
(1973- ) US software engineer and author whose first novel, The Order of Odd-Fish (2008), is a Young Adult fantasy whose orphan protagonist begins to come of age through a Fantastic Journey through an exorbitant Wonderland expectedly in search of her true nature, which she finds. Kennedy is of interest for his second novel, Dare to Know (2021), in which the ...
Kleinbaum, N H
(? - ) US author for children and Young Adult markets, much of her work being fantasy; of sf interest is D.A.R.Y.L. (1985), a Tie to the film D.A.R.Y.L. (1985), about an amnesiac child who turns out to be a highly formidable (but loving) Android. [JC]
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 ...