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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Albedo One
Irish low-paying magazine of sf, fantasy and horror fiction which appeared irregularly; formerly two or three times per year, latterly once or twice; there was a three-year gap between issue #47 in 2016 and #48 in 2019. First issue, Summer 1993, but undated from issue #4. Originally published by Tachyon Productions, Dublin, Eire, as an A5 booklet, the publisher became Albedo One Productions, Dublin, from issue #12 (1996), and it switched to A4 format. Digital copies in PDF format have also been ...
Kennedy, Kathryne
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Elf Critic" in Alternate Hilarities #3 for 1992. She is the author of several paranormal romance novels and historical fantasies [neither The Elven Lords sequence nor The Relics of Merlin sequence is listed below], and is of sf interest for Beneath the Thirteen Moons (2003) a romantic Planetary Romance set on a ...
Burnham, Sophie
(? - ) US author whose Ex Romana sequence beginning with Sargassa (2024) is set in an Alternate History North America whose Jonbar Point unpacks from the Roman exploration of the Atlantic during the reign of Augustus Caesar (63 BCE-14 CE), and the consequent establishment of Roma Sargassa. After much history, including a Pandemic ...
Lewellen, Lyndsey
(? - ) US author whose Young Adult Chaos Grid sequence is of sf interest, beginning with The Chaos Grid (2024), a Western set in a distant Near Future balkanized desert Texas reduced to armoured Keeps besieged by Mutants: all this caused by two centuries of ...
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 ...