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Sallis, James
(1944-2026) US musician, poet and author, briefly active in New Worlds during its Michael Moorcock-directed New-Wave phase; he began to publish work of genre interest in this context with "Kazoo" (August 1967 New Worlds) and co-edited the magazine 1968-1969. His clearly acknowledged models in the French avant garde and the gnomic brevity of much of his work ...
Skurzynski, Gloria
(1930- ) US author from the 1970s of fiction and nonfiction for Young Adult markets; in her first sf novel, Cyberstorm (1995), a young girl finds herself trapped in a Virtual Reality room meant to re-create a world of happy memories for its elderly owner; wrongness soon pervades the enclave. Skurzynski's Virtual War Chronologs sequence beginning with Virtual War (1997) ...
Sagnier, Thierry J
(1946- ) US author born in France, known mostly for works on music. His sf novel The IFO Report (1983) deals with an unsuccessful effort – by a NASA scientist and several newspaper reporters – to expose a conspiracy involving unfortunate First Contact between the US Army and an Alien Spaceship. Matters end unhappily for several of the principal ...
Glenn, Harper
(? - ) US author whose first novel, the Young Adult Monarch Rising (2022), set in a declining Dystopian version of Near Future America, follows the hegira of its young protagonist Jo Monarch as she leaves the isolated Southern hinterlands of her birth and begins to discover wider truths about the world beyond the Ashes, and about love. [JC]
Zinos-Amaro, Alvaro
(1979- ) Spanish editor and author, in US after around 2003; he began to publish work of sf interest with "Problems of the Solid State" in Farrago's Wainscot for January 2009, and has since also been active as critic, with pieces appearing in New York Review of Science Fiction, Strange Horizons and elsewhere. His ...
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 ...