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Drew, Wayland
(1932-1998) Canadian teacher and author, often on environment issues as they affect Canada and its indigenous peoples, who began publishing sf with The Wabeno Feast (1973), a complex tale about Holocaust and its roots, in which three narrative strands all tangibly cohere – the eighteenth-century journal of an early entrepreneur who confronts the heart of darkness in the pale wabeno (an Indian shaman), the canoe trip of a Canadian couple through ...
Holtby, Winifred
(1898-1935) UK poet, journalist, playwright and author, who served towards the end of World War One in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps; henceforth active as a writer, sometimes as by Corbin W Wood. In her best known work, South Riding (1936), and in other novels and essays, she espoused an informed, complex Feminism also reflected in her two Satires: ...
VR.5
Tv series (1995; vt VR5). Samoset Productions with Rysher Entertainment for the Fox Television Network. Created by Jeannine Renshaw. Produced by Adam Cherry, Jack Clements, others. Directors include Rob Bowman, Jim Charleston and Michael Katleman. Writers include Naomi Janzen, Renshaw and John Sacret Young. Cast includes Michael Easton, Louise Fletcher, Anthony Head, David McCallum, Tracy Needham, Will Patton and Lori Singer. 13 45-minute episodes. Colour. / The central ...
Park, Paul
(1954- ) US author, educated in the land of his birth, peripatetic for most of the 1980s, but resident again in the USA at about the time he began publishing sf with Soldiers of Paradise (1987), the first volume of The Starbridge Chronicles, which continues with Sugar Rain (1989) – assembled with the first volume as The Sugar Festival (omni 1989) – and is completed by The Cult of Loving Kindness ...
Marriott Watson, Henry Crocker
(1839-1901) Australian minister and author, in New Zealand from 1873; his family surname was simply Watson, but both he and his son, H B Marriott Watson, used the fuller name in honour of the distinguished Marriott family, with whom a relationship was claimed; he did, however, write at least once as Henry Crocker. Erchomenon; or, The Republic of Materialism (1879), a Sleeper Awakes tale published ...
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 reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...