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Broderick, Damien
(1944-2025) Australian author, editor and critic; he had a PhD in the semiotics of fiction, science and sf with special reference to the work of Samuel R Delany. He edited four anthologies of Australian sf: The Zeitgeist Machine (anth 1977), Strange Attractors (anth 1985), Matilda at the Speed of Light (anth 1988) and Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction (anth ...
Musica Elettronica Viva
Experimental music group founded in Rome in 1966; active until 2017; commonly abbreviated to MEV. Initially with a somewhat nebulous line-up, it soon coalesced around the core trio of Alvin Curran (1938- ), Frederick Rzewski (1938-2021) and Richard Teitelbaum (1939-2020), each of whom had distinguished careers in avant-garde music. Their first album, SpaceCraft (1967) mixes electronics, saxophone and organ to attempt to convey the sensation of ...
Bartlett, Frederick Orin
(1876-1945) US screenwriter and author of several adventure novels; The Web of the Golden Spider (1909) is a Lost Race tale set in the Andes, where unguarded Incan treasures are soon discovered. [JC]
Dexter, William
Pseudonym of UK author William Thomas Pritchard (1906-1985), whose two sf novels make up the short Denis Grafton series, in which concerns about the End of the World through nuclear World War Three are articulated, fairly incoherently, via a metaphysical Space Opera plot. In World of Eclipse (1954), after life on Earth has been eliminated by a "thorium" bomb, a few ...
Hayashi, William
(? - ) US screenwriter, broadcaster and author who is known in the latter capacity for the Darkside Trilogy beginning with Discovery (2009) which describes the discovery of an African American colony that has been living on the other side of the Moon since before the first official American Moon landing. Part Pariah Elite, part ...
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 ...