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Garfinkle, Gwynne
(? - ) US poet and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Memo from the Universe" in Tales of Magic Realism by Women: Dreams in a Minor Key (anth 1991) edited by Susanna J Sturgis. A representative selection from her output has been assembled as Sinking, Singing: Short Fiction (coll 2024); it reprints a strong Feminist novelette, A Wild Patience (2020 ebook), an ...
Shaw, W J
(? -? ) US author of a Hollow Earth tale, Under the Auroras: A Marvellous Tale of the Interior World by an American Author, Playwright, and Journalist (1888; vt Cresten, Queen of the Toitus; Or, Under the Auroras 1892 as W J Shaw). Within the double narrative frame – the real protagonist, Amos Jackson, tells an unnamed interlocutor the story of his adventures – a Symmesian inner world ...
Pieczenik, Steve R
(1943- ) Cuban-born US author most of whose work of any genre interest has been contributed as Ties to the Tom Clancy's Net Force Shared World sequence of Near Future Technothrillers supervised by Tom Clancy, beginning with Net Force (1999) with Steve ...
Colville, W J
(1857-1917) UK author, almost exclusively on occult topics; of sf interest is Dashed Against the Rock: A Romance of the Coming Age (1894) which includes, in the midst of otherwise indigestible speculations, a vision of an inhabited Mars. [JC]
Haldane, Charlotte
(1894-1969) UK author, married to J B S Haldane (1926-1945) and sister-in-law of Naomi Mitchison; her early work, mostly journalism with Feminist implications, was usually published as by Charlotte Burghes. Her Scientific Romance, Man's World (1926), explicitly draws not only on her husband's arguments in ...
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 ...