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Datta, Sukanya
(1961- ) Indian zoologist, with a doctorate from the University of Calcutta, and author of both popular science books and sf short stories, the latter first assembled as Once Upon a Blue Moon: Science Fiction Stories (coll 2006). Her work, some of which could be described as Hard SF, focuses on the challenge of new Technologies in the complex world of Near Future ...
Høeg, Peter
(1957- ). Danish author, much of whose work seems essentially Equipoisal between various modes – the stressed realism of De måske egnede (1993; trans Barbara Haveland as Borderliners 1994); the faux-folkloric idioms of some of the tales assembled in Fortællinger om natten (coll of linked stories 1990; trans Barbara Haveland as Tales of the Night 1997); the Magic Realist ...
Muirden, James
(1942- ) UK author, most of whose works are nonfiction popularizing Astronomy; he also published the two-volume Eric Kendall series of Young Adult sf tales comprising Space Intruder (1965) and The Moon-Winners (1965). Young Eric, after halting a rogue planet from striking Earth in the first volume, again must fight the obduracy of the British defense establishment in the ...
Cox, Joan
(1942- ) US rancher and author whose first sf novel, Mindsong (1979), features a planet terraformed into a Hellenic Eden (see Utopia). Her second, Star Web (1980), is somewhat less engaging. [JC] see also: Faster Than Light. /
Breakwell, James
Pseudonym of unidentified US comedian, blogger and author (1987- ), most of his work being nonfiction, including spoofish "guides" to living like Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse (2017) [these titles not listed below]. He is of sf interest for The Chosen Twelve (2022), a Space Opera set mostly on a Starship whose human passengers, en route ...
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 ...