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Fagan, Jenni
(1977- ) Scottish poet and author whose second novel, The Sunlight Pilgrims (2016), perhaps rather eccentrically applies the topos of Climate Change to explain a very Near-Future planet-wide onslaught of savage cold (see Scientific Errors), though this oddness might be alleviated, given that the tale is set in an isolated community in the north of ...
Golden, Christie
(1963- ) US author who has concentrated mostly on fantasy series and Ties, beginning with Ravenloft: Vampire of the Mists (1991) in the Ravenloft sequence of Pocket Universe tales in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing Game-World, and a few years later beginning a long association with the Star Trek universes beginning ...
Jones, Gwyneth
(1952- ) UK author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Felicia" (in Junior Winter's Tales, anth 1975, ed M R Hopkins), and who became widely known in the 1980s after she began to publish adult novels; over the reach of her career, however, most of her books have been juveniles, beginning with Water in the Air (1977), a fantasy; from Dear Hill (1980), she has written sf and fantasy almost exclusively; and from 1981 ...
Greenberg, Rosalind M
(1951- ) US author and editor who began to publish work of genre interest with "Namesake" as by Elizabeth Morton in The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural (anth 1981) edited by Martin H Greenberg, Barry N Malzberg and Bill Pronzini; she also published short fiction as by Rosalind Straley. She is best known for co-editing seven ...
Williams, Billy Dee
Working name of US actor and author William December Williams (1937- ), best known for playing Lando Calrissian in Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) et cetera. He co-wrote with Rob MacGregor the Trent Calloway series beginning with OSI Net (1999), about American intelligence operatives gifted (or cursed) with ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star ...