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Goebbels, Heiner
(1952- ) German musician and composer, widely recognized for his innovative radio, concert and multimedia works which frequently make use of literary sources. Schatten/Landschaft mit Argonauten (performed 1990; 1993; vt SHADOW/Landscape with Argonauts) has words from "Shadow: A Fable" (September 1835 Southern Literary Messenger) by Edgar Allan Poe, juxtaposed with a contemporary ...
Marusek, David
(1951- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Earth Is on the Mend" in Asimov's for May 1993, and who quickly established a reputation for the creation of Near Future visions of Earth of nearly unparalleled complexity. Although he comes close at time to expounding a case for the kind of Technological fixes favoured by Hard SF ...
Somoza, José Carlos
(1959- ) Cuban-born author, in Spain from infancy, several of whose novels are thrillers, some intriguingly metafictional (see Fabulation), including his first tale to be translated, La caverna de los ideas (2000; trans Sonia Soto as The Athenian Murders 2002), where what seems a complexly contrived investigation into hermetic truths possibly contained in the eponymous mystery (written circa 400 BCE) turns ...
Cameron, J D
A House Name used by the publishing and book packaging firm BPVP (see Byron Preiss) for the Omega Sub sequence of Post-Holocaust military-sf adventures about the crew of a nuclear sub which survives World War Three, beginning with Omega Sub #1: Omega Sub (1991) by Mike Jahn and ending with Omega Sub #6: Raven Rising (1992) by ...
Bruère, Martha Bensley
(1879-1953) US artist, editor and author, known early as a portrait painter, later in various social reform campaigns as a member of the Women's Trade Union League, an organization noted for its advocacy of women's rights (see Feminism). Her sf novel, Mildred Carver, U.S.A. (1919), depicts a Near Future Utopian America modestly reconstructed on socialist principles, a main feature of the new ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...