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Penny, David G
(1950- ) UK author of four sf novels for Robert Hale Limited, of which the most interesting may be The Sunset People (1975), set in a Ruined Earth long after a nuclear World War Three, where Mutants have proliferated until being scorched out of existence through the use of a cache of nuclear ...
Millar, Ali
(1980- ) Scottish author, whose first book, The Last Days (2022), which is nonfiction, describes her upbringing as a Jehovah's Witness, and her apostasy (surprisingly late) as a married woman. She is of sf interest for her first novel, the Near Future Ava Anna Ada (2024), each of these palindromes beginning with the letter A. Britain is beset not only by exponential ...
Pierce, Thomas
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of specific sf interest with "This Is an Alert" in The New Yorker for 30 March 2015, which is set in the very Near Future, though some earlier stories are disruptively fantastic. The tales assembled in Hall of Small Mammals (coll 2015) implement a wide range of techniques associated with Fabulation in general; deadpan ...
Wood, Nick
(1961-2023) Zambian-born clinical psychologist and author, raised in South Africa and USA, later resident in the UK, He began to publish work of genre interest with "African Shadows" as Nicholas Wood in Scheherazade 18 dated 1999, his first professional sale being "God in the Box" in Interzone for March 2003. His debut novel, The Stone Chameleon (2004), Equipoisally mixes a depiction of ...
Lugosi, Bela
Working name of Hungarian-born Horror actor Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (1882-1956), in the US from 1920, who became a US citizen in 1931. He first achieved fame with his title role in the 1927 Broadway stage version of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), leading to his star part in the Universal Pictures Dracula (1931) directed by Tod Browning. In non- ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star ...