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Lore, Pittacus
House Name owned by James Frey (1969- ) – not to be confused with James N Frey – a serially controversial author and screenwriter whose works include the heavily fabricated addiction memoir A Million Little Pieces (2003) and the contemporary Messiah fantasy The Final Testament of the Holy Bible (2011). The Lore house name is associated ...
Wilson, Steven H
(? - ) US information technology consultant, publisher and author whose sf series, the Arbiter Chronicles sequence beginning with Taken Liberty: A Tale from the Arbiter Chronicles (2006) is a modestly gonzo Space Opera strongly evocative of the world of Star Trek and other similar universes. Peace Lord of the Red Planet (2016) is a singleton. [JC]
Hayashi, William
(? - ) US screenwriter, broadcaster and author who is known in the latter capacity for the Darkside Trilogy beginning with Discovery (2009) which describes the discovery of an African American colony that has been living on the other side of the Moon since before the first official American Moon landing. Part Pariah Elite, part ...
Brown, John Young
(1856-1921) US educator and author. The protagonist of his sf novel, To the Moon and Back in Ninety Days: A Thrilling Narrative of Blended Science and Adventure (1922), hitches a ride on a Spaceship powered by Antigravity device to the Moon. The discovery of Selenites there turns out to be a hoax but the trip was real. The posthumous publication of the tale was arranged by residents of the ...
Willis, Meredith Sue
(1946- ) US author active since the early 1990s, much of her work being nonfiction about the art of writing. Of some sf interest is the Young Adult tale The City Built of Starships (2005), whose young Ecologically-sound protagonist confronts old-guard remnants of the expedition which has attempted to colonize (see Colonization of Other Worlds) the ...
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 ...