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Williams, Tess
(1954-2025) UK-born teacher, editor and author, in Australia for many years, there receiving a degree in literature from Curtin University and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Padwan Affair" in She's Fantastical (anth 1995) edited by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex. Of sf interest are two novels: Map of Power (1996), set mostly in a ...
Amazing Stories [tv]
US tv series (1985-1987; vt Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories). Amblin/Universal for NBC. Created by Steven Spielberg. Producers included Joshua Brand, John Falsey, David E Vogel. Writers included Spielberg, Frank Deese, Richard Christian Matheson, Mick Garris, Joseph Minion, Menno Meyjes, Michael McDowell, Paul Bartel. Directors included Spielberg, Robert ...
Slade, Derek
(? - ) UK author of a Hitler Wins novel, Invasion: England 1940 (1990), whose Jonbar Point is Hitler's decision to direct the Luftwaffe at RAF bases rather than cities. The novel as a whole focuses on the ensuing military campaigns, in a manner reminiscent of traditional tales of Invasion (see ...
One of the Unemployed
Pseudonym of UK soldier and author Horace Edwin Cole Littlejohns (1880-1946), in active service in both the Boer War and World War One; the name was used solely for his fast-moving sf thriller The Brain-Box (1927). This centres on a German-created thought-reading Invention (see Psionics) with which it is intended to extract military secrets directly from the minds of Allied generals; the ...
Carpenter, Elmer J
(1907-1988) US author in whose Moonspin (1967) a foreign power gains control of Earth's weather, threatening to freeze the planet (see Climate Change; Weather Control); but a fight-back effort by Scientists on the Moon may save the day. An earlier novel, Nile Fever (1959), is not sf. [JC]
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 ...