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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 ...
Hussey, David
(1903-1959) UK author of a Utopia, No Sting, No Honey (1938), set on a South Pacific Island where women, following rigid Eugenic precepts, have transformed themselves into the dominant sex (see Feminism); the society itself is organized like a bee hive. Some of the Club Stories assembled in Fort Carteret (coll of linked stories ...
Shadow of Memories
Videogame (2001; vt Shadow of Destiny). Konami. Designed by Junko Kawano. Platforms: PS2 (2001); Win, XBox (2002); PSP (2009). / Shadow of Memories is a highly atmospheric graphical Adventure with an unusual plot; the player must solve the mystery of their own murder. The display is fully three-dimensional, and the gameplay revolves around puzzle solution and conversation with computer ...
Crossan, Sarah
(1981- ) Irish author, mostly of nonfantastic fiction for the Young Adult market; she is of sf interest for the Near Future Hey, Zooey (2024), not written for an age group, which is set at a time when Android companions, fitted out for unlimitedly pliable Sex, have become part of the cultural landscape. The tale itself follows the complicated ...
Zoo
A Zoo is an enclosure whose inmates are not allowed to leave and who may be observed at will. With the possible exceptions of the ghetto, the quarantine and the Prison, the Zoo thus defined can be distinguished from other enclosed venues, real or imagined: from the wildlife preserve, the Keep, the Island, the circus, the reservation, the Garden City, the Utopia or ...
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 ...