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Sarrantonio, Al
(1952-2025) US editor and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Ahead of the Joneses" in Asimov's for March 1979. Much of his work was horror, sometimes tinged with sf (see Horror in SF), including his first novel, The Worms (1985), a Gothic tale set in Massachusetts with hints of H P Lovecraft; and the Equipoisal Moonbane ...
Lo, Malinda
(1974- ) Chinese-born journalist and author, in USA from early childhood, active online, writing for AfterEllen.com, from about 2003. Her first series, the Ash sequence beginning with Ash (2009), is fantasy, turning on a reworking of the Cinderella story as a lesbian romance; the second volume, Huntress (2011), is a prequel set in Faerie [for Cinderella, Faerie and Twice-Told see The ...
Harington, Donald
(1935-2009) US author, artist and teacher of art history, all of whose novels after the first are set in or otherwise linked to the fictional town of Stay More in his birth state of Arkansas; elements of Fantastika appear in several books of this quirky Ozarks sequence. Some Other Place. The Right Place (1972) involves Reincarnation and the use of regression through Hypnosis to ...
Deighton, Jack
Pseudonym of Scottish chemist and author Jack D Stephen (1953- ), who was active in UK Fandom under his own name, and who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Face of the Waters", as by Jack Deighton, in New Worlds 2 (anth 1992) edited by David S Garnett. His only novel to date, A Son of the Rock: A Space Libretto (1997), which unusually combines ...
Stoppard, Tom
Working name of Czech-born playwright and screenwriter Tomáš Straussler (1937- ), in the UK since 1946, the Stoppard surname being acquired from his stepfather when his widowed mother remarried in 1945. His early dramatic work was characterized by extravagant wit and wordplay, and an Absurdist application of logic to surreal or insane situations. Following the broadcast of several Radio plays, his ...
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 ...