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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 ...
Benelux
The Benelux consists of three nations: the Netherlands (Holland), Belgium and Luxembourg. The Dutch language is spoken in the Netherlands and in the northern part of Belgium, called Flanders. The French-speaking southern and eastern part of Belgium is called Wallonia. In the field of literature Flanders and the Netherlands are one domain, and the same can be said for Wallonia and France. Flemish (from Flanders) and Walloon (from Wallonia) authors are mostly published, respectively, in the ...
Vaughan, Thomas Hunter
(? -? ) UK author, seemingly active only during the teens of the twentieth century; of some sf interest is The Gates of the Past (1911), a tale of Reincarnation in which Ancient Egyptians manifest themselves in London under the sway of an occult psychologist/magus named Ramon Cafara. [JC]
Mitchells vs the Machines, The
US animated film (2021). Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Lord Miller Productions, One Cool Films. Directed by Mike Rianda. Written by Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe. Voice cast includes Eric André, Fred Armisen, Beck Bennett, Olivia Colman, Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Mike Rianda and Maya Rudolph. 113 minutes. Colour. / Having always felt an outsider in her Michigan hometown, Katie Mitchell (Jacobson) is delighted to learn she has been accepted by the California ...
Saffron, Robert
(1918-1985) US journalist, television screenwriter and author of The Demon Device: A Novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as Communicated to Robert Saffron (1979), a mildly speculative Alternate History set in World War One, with Arthur Conan Doyle sent off by his government to destroy a German secret Weapon; he is successful. [JC]
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 ...