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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
Reyes, Ruben, Jr
(? - ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "SyncALife" in Lightspeed for August 2022, with some of his numerous short stories assembled as There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven (coll 2024). His first novel, Archive of Unknown Universes (2025), features an apparently patented device known as the Defractor, which also functions as a Time Viewer. The ...
Khan
Short-lived UK band, named after the Star Trek villain. Its sole release was Space Shanty (1972), a suite of prog-rock songs embroidering a loose futuristic spacefaring concept, especially in the tracks "Space Shanty", "Stargazers" and "Hollow Stone (incl. Escape of the Space Pilots)". The music is characteristic prog: grandiose and ornate, alternating meditative moments with harder rock-orchestral thumpings. [AR]
Huang Yi
Pen name of Huang Zuqiang (1952-2017), a Chinese author primarily of the historical swords-and-sorcery genre known as Wuxia. After training as a painter, he served as an assistant curator at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, before resigning in 1989 to dedicate himself to his writing. Huang's wuxia work, written in imitation of Ni Kuang and Jin Yong, might have remained firmly in ...
Beaton, Alistair
(1947- ) Scottish playwright, journalist, translator, Television writer and author. He gained early recognition for co-authoring such television shows as Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979-1982); the Satirical The Trial of Tony Blair (first broadcast 15 January 2007 More4), set in 2010, primarily arraigns the prime minister for his support of the American war against Iraq. He is also ...
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 ...