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Nestvold, Ruth
(1958- ) US translator and author, now in Germany. She began to publish work of genre interest with "Latency Time" in Asimov's for July 2001, which was assembled with other tales involving Climate Change as The Future, Imperfect: Six Dystopian Short Stories (coll 2012). Further collections include Almost All the Way Home from the Stars (coll 2013) with Jay ...
Hill, Joe
Working name of US Comics scripter and author Joseph Hillstrom King (1972- ), son of Stephen King and brother of Owen King; most of his earlier work has been horror, much of it nonfantastic, though Horror in SF topoi sometimes visit; he began to publish work of genre interest with "The Lady Rests" in Palace Corbie Seven (anth 1997) ...
Ryman, Ras
Pseudonym of UK author James D Brown (? - ) for three Space Operas published by Robert Hale Limited; they are The Quadrant War (1976) – a Space Opera of War between rival interstellar empires – Day of the Ultramind (1977) and Weavers of Death (1981) [JC]
Event, The
US tv series (2010-2011). Created by Nick Wauters. Producers include Jeffrey Reiner and Steve Stark. Directors include Reiner and Milan Cheylov. Writers include Wauters, Vanessa Rojas, Jay Beattie, and Lisa Zwerling. Cast includes Jason Ritter as Sean Walker, Sarah Roemer as Leila Buchanan, Blair Underwood as President Elias Martinez, Zeljko Ivanek as Blake Sterling, Ian Anthony Dale as Simon Lee, Laura Innes as Sophia Maguire, Scott Patterson as Michael Buchanan, and Clifton Collins Jr ...
Magidoff, Robert
(1905-1970) Russian-born US academic, possibly born Rubin Magidenko, Professor of Russian Literature at New York University 1961-1970. He edited (but did not translate) three sf Anthologies: Russian Science Fiction (anth 1964), Russian Science Fiction, 1968 (anth 1968) and Russian Science Fiction, 1969 (anth 1969). [PN]
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 ...