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Turk, H C
(1958- ) US photographer, painter and author who began publishing sf with the comic adventure Ether Ore (1987), an Alternate History tale where the world has been transformed by the eponymous Power Source, which makes space travel cheap, and where a female "Hitler" is a force for peace. The exceedingly ambitious Black Body (1989) presents, in terms readable as both sf and ...
Dain, Alex
Pseudonym of US therapist and author Alex Lukeman (1941- ), who has published under his own name several books on the nature of dreams and the ongoing thriller series The Project, which relates the exploits of the eponymous secret US counter-terrorism unit, beginning with White Jade (2011). Lukeman used the Alex Dain byline for his first novel only: The Bane of Kanthos (1969 dos), which is ...
Spicer, Arwen
(1975- ) US academic and author, whose nonfiction work has focused on authors like William Morris and H G Wells, with an emphasis on their approach to what eventually would be known as Ecology. Her sf novel Perdita (2001) explores similar issues in a tale set on the artificially isolated eponymous planet, where pro- and anti-Technology ...
Baker, Gordon
(? - ) UK author of None So Blind (1946), a Near Future tale set in 1970s Germany, where Neo-Nazis armed with new Weapons threaten democracy. [JC]
Kaiser, Henry
(1952- ) US guitarist, a prolific and important figure in improvised music, with a longstanding interest in sf and fantasy. Daniel M Pinkwater provided the text of the title track of The Devil in the Drain (1987), read by Kaiser. Crazy Backwards Alphabet (1987) is a collaboration with cartoonist and Simpsons creator Matt Groening. The Wolf at the Door (2025) ...
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 ...