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Williams, Tess
(1954-2025) UK-born teacher, editor and author, in Australia for many years, there receiving a degree in literature from Curtin University and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Padwan Affair" in She's Fantastical (anth 1995) edited by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex. Of sf interest are two novels: Map of Power (1996), set mostly in a ...
Cass, Kiera
(1981- ) US author whose first novel, The Siren (2009; rev 2016), is fantasy [for Mermaids see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy below]. She is of sf interest for the Young Adult Dystopian Selection sequence beginning with The Selection (2012), set in a land called Illéa, which seems to be a confabulated version ...
Telepathy
Telepathy or mind-reading is the most popular and durable paranormal ability in sf; its hypothetical roots in scientific reality are discussed under ESP, as are instances of pre-Genre SF usage and various stories which deal with telepathy as part of a wider spectrum of Psi Powers. Roger Luckhurst's The Invention of Telepathy: 1870-1901 (2002) usefully ...
Common Side Effects
US animated tv series (2025). Green Street Pictures. Created by Joseph Bennett and Steve Hely. Directed by Camille Bozec, Sean Buckelew and Vincent Tsui. Writers include Steve Hely. Voice cast includes Joseph Lee Anderson, Danny Huston, Mike Judge, Martha Kelly, Dave King, Emily Pendergast and Sue Rose. Ten 23-minute episodes. Colour. / After protesting the environmental damage (see Ecology) in Peru caused by pharmaceutical company Reutical, Marshall Cuso ...
Professor Balthazar
Croatian (then part of Yugoslavia) animated tv series (1967-1978; original title Profesor Baltazar). Zagreb Film. Created by Zlatko Grgić. Directors include Zlatko Grgić, Boris Kolar and Ante Zaninović. Writers include Zlatko Grgić, Boris Kolar, Zeljan Palcok and Ante Zaninović. Narrated by Nada Agbaba, Zlatko Crnkovic and Erik Schumann. 59 4-10 minute episodes ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...