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Živković, Zoran
(1948- ) Serbian publisher, researcher, translator and author; his 1982 doctoral dissertation for Belgrade University, "The Appearance of Science Fiction as a Genre of Artistic Prose", was published in his Savremenici budućnosti ["Contemporaries of the Future"] (anth 1983), along with some of the stories he discusses. He has translated more than seventy sf books and published more than 200 books under his Polaris imprint, the first privately ...
Georges, Karoline
(1970- ) Canadian artist and author whose first book of sf interest, the Near Future novella La Mue de l'hermaphrodite ["The Moulting of the Hermaphrodite"] (2001) follows the life of a hermaphrodite born through assisted reproduction technology with something unclearly approximating Superpowers, though they are unused in their solitude (see Identity; ...
Stockhausen, Karlheinz
(1928-2007). Avant-garde classical composer, revered and reviled in equal measure for his uncompromising musical experiments. From the 1950s on Stockhausen developed his own style, challenging standard definitions of quantities like tone, scale and rhythm, utilizing aleatory and formulaic methodologies, and happy to work with electronic and other unconventional instruments: for instance: 1992's Helikopter-Streichquartett is scored "for string quartet and four helicopters" (see ...
Duggan, Ervin S
(1939- ) US commentator, President from 1993 to 1999 of the American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and author of Against All Enemies (1977) with Ben J Wattenberg, a Future War novel told from a moderately conservative standpoint. [JC]
Burgess, Eric
(1912-1995) UK author, always in collaboration with Arthur Friggens, of several sf novels for Robert Hale Limited, none being remarkable in content. Anti-Zota (1973) revolves around conflict between the short-lived and the long-lived (see Immortality) in the Far Future. Arguably the Mortorio books – Mortorio (1973) ...
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 ...