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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 ...
Means, David
(1961- ) US author, best known from his first fiction, which he began to publish in 1991, as an author of short stories, not normally fantastic – his work in shorter forms has evoked expectable but merited comparisons with Alice Munro and Flannery O'Connor. He is of sf interest for his first novel, Hystopia (2016), which presents an Alternate History version of modern American history whose ...
Malcolm, Donald
(1930-2013) Scottish author of fiction and considerable popular science, some in collaboration with Archie Roy under the joint pseudonym Roy Malcolm (whom see for details). He began publishing sf with "Defence Mechanism" for New Worlds, November 1957. Two series of stories, the Matthew Brady/Preliminary Exploration Team tales in New Worlds 1957-1964 and the ...
Manhunter
Videogame series (from 1988). Evryware. Designed by Dave Murry, Barry Murry, Dee Dee Murry. / The Manhunter games incorporate the reflex-based gameplay of two-dimensional action games into the puzzle narratives of graphical Adventures, an unusual (and ultimately unsuccessful) combination. There is typically little overlap between the group of Videogame-players who appreciate intense, ...
Spangler, Catherine
(? - ) US author who is of primary sf interest for her romantic Space Opera series, the Shielder sequence beginning with Shielder (1999), where an initial Planetary Romance setting – the planet Liron, afflicted by an induced Pandemic – soon expands galaxywards as the Shielder culture attempts to find a cure. The series ...
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 ...