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Dyroff, Charlee
(? - ) US author whose first novel, Loneliness & Company (2024), is set in the Near Future Dystopian shambles of New York; the alert young protagonist becomes involved in Cultural Engineering project in which an AI is learning how to keep humans from feeling lonely. The answer seems ...
Rogers-Davidson, Sally
(1960- ) Australian author of Young Adult fiction, two titles being of sf interest: Polymer (1995), a Space Opera involving a galaxy-wide War; and Spare Parts (1999), set in a Dystopian Melbourne a century hence, where a rigid caste system encourages the poor to sell their bodies to the rich for purposes of ...
Cass, De Lysle Ferrée
(1887-1973) US author who published fairly widely in American Pulp magazines of the early twentieth century, mostly concentrating on fantasy, and beginning with "Oahula the Carnivorous" (March 1913 All-Story). Of sf interest is his authorship of the eighth of the Airship Boys sequence, The Airship Boys in the Great War; Or, the Rescue of Bob Russell (1915) as by H L Sayler, ...
Macowan, Norman
(1877-1961) UK actor and playwright, whose Near Future play, Glorious Morning: A Play in Three Acts (1938 chap), is set in the Graustarkian (see George Barr McCutcheon; Ruritania) state of Zagnira, where a Joan of Arc figure foments revolution. [JC]
Lodestar Award
Award for the year's best Young Adult book, presented at Worldcon in association with the Hugos. Like the John W Campbell Award/Astounding Award, this is voted by the same constituency as the Hugos, using the same ballot form, but is not a Hugo. The chief reason for this distinction is the principle ...
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 (1966-1967), and later in ...