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Corlett, Anne
(? - ) UK criminal lawyer and author whose first novel after several nonfantastic tales, The Space Between the Stars (2017), attempts with some ambition to use a Space Opera frame to interrogate various practical and moral issues following the virtual elimination of Homo sapiens both on Earth and across a swathe of settled planets (see ...
Colvin, James
House Name used primarily by Michael Moorcock for book reviews and stories in New Worlds, and for one independent collection of stories: The Deep Fix (coll 1966), which led to the band name Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix. The name was occasionally used by other contributors for book reviews. Eventually Moorcock reported ...
Smale, Alan
(? - ) UK-born astronomer and author, in US from 1988 and a US citizen from mid-2000; a NASA scientist and manager from 1988 and for several years Director of the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, a role from which he has since retired with Emeritus status. He began publishing work of genre interest with "The Breath of Princes" as Alan P Smale in ...
Mann, Del
(? - ) US author of a Sex novel with an sf element, Sands of Desire (1980). [JC]
Lusk, Sean
(? - ) UK political scientist and author, initially of nonfantastic short fiction, including A Flood in the Yucatan (2017). He is of some sf interest for a Steampunk tale, The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley (2022), set in an Alternate World version of eighteen-century Europe, with the action moving to Constantinople. The protagonist's second sight (see ...
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 ...