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Allston, Aaron
(1960-2014) US author and Role Playing Game designer who published many nonfiction pieces in this area, was editor of Space Gamer magazine 1982-1983, and co-designed the games Justice, Inc (1984) and The Savage Empire (1990) (see Worlds of Ultima). Several though not all of his novels are tied to the Star Wars universe ...
Mullally, Frederic
(1918-2014) UK journalist, publicist and author whose only sf novel – after the borderline Oh! Wicked Wanda (1970) – is Hitler Has Won (1975), based on a Comic strip in Penthouse Magazine; an a competent presentation of what has become a very common Alternate-History vision of history (see Hitler Wins). Mullally's particular explanation for Hitler's ...
Couzens, Gary
(1964- ) UK author whose first published story was "Drowning" in The Ebb Tide and Other Stories from Cornwall (anth 1991), edited by John T Wilson. He began publishing work of genre interest with the film review column "Sprockets" (1991-1993 Exuberance) and then the genre tale "Second Contact" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for March 1994. Further stories and nonfiction pieces have appeared in ...
Raynor, William
(1920-1994) US screenwriter and author of Freeze (1988) with Myles Wilder, a thriller in which Medicine and Cryonics mix ominously. Raynor also wrote the screenplays for Phantom from Space (1953), Killers from Space (1954; vt Aliens from Space) and ...
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]
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 ...