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Everglade, Mark
(? - ) US journalist and author who has published reviews and commentary on Cyberpunk writers and issues; he began publishing fiction of genre interest with "Pay-to-Play" in Neo Cyberpunk: The Anthology (anth 2021) edited by Matthew A Goodwin, Anna Mosikat and Marlin Seigman. The Gliese 581g sequence beginning with Hemispheres (2020) is set on humanity's last inhabited planet, a ...
Page, Jake
Working name of US author James Keena Page Jr (1936-2016), most of whose work is nonfiction, with a focus on the natural history of Western America and on Native American culture. His fiction consists mostly of mysteries set in Western venues. Of sf interest is Operation: Shatterhand (1996), an Alternate History set in a World War Two in which Germans invade the American West (see ...
Dale, Floyd D
(? - ) US author whose first work, A Hunter's Fire (1989), is a Post-Holocaust military-sf adventure, in which the USSR invades the USA; valiant guerrilla warfare ensues. [JC]
Gordon, Ariel
(? - ) Canadian poet and author of a Young Adult sf novel, Blood Letters (2025) with G M B Chomichuk (for details see that entry). [JC] Ariel Gordon born Winnipeg, Manitoba / Blood Letters (Winnipeg, Manitoba: ...
Parkinson, Keith
(1958-2005) American artist. He received artistic training at the University of Michigan and the Kendall School of Design before beginning his career in advertising. Along with Clyde Caldwell, Jeff Easley, and Larry D Elmore, Parkinson then went to work for TSR and, during the next five years, produced numerous illustrations for the company's books, magazines, calendars, and Games. While such assignments naturally involved a focus on ...
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 ...