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Lee, Sharon
(1952- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "A Matter of Ceremony" (May 1980 Amazing). Almost all her further work has been in collaboration with Steve Miller, their main endeavour being the extended Liaden Universe sequence of Space Opera tales, set in expansive (though not adventurously described) interstellar venues. The first three titles, ...
Counter, Ben
(1979- ) UK author primarily associated to date with various iterations of the Warhammer Game-oriented universe, though his first work of genre interest, "Hate" for Roadworks in 1999, is not connected. His novels for the universe include three for Warhammer 40,000, beginning with Warhammer 40,000: Soul Drinker (2002); two for Warhammer 40,000: Grey Knights, beginning with ...
Furniss, Clare
(? - ) UK author whose works for mature Young Adult readers begin with her first novel, The Year of the Rat (2014), whose young protagonist is haunted by the ghost of her mother, who has just died giving birth to an infant sister nicknamed The Rat. In her third novel, The Things We Leave Behind (2023), a teenaged girl must suddenly escape Near Future ...
Geen, Eric
(? - ) UK author of an sf Satire, Tolstoy Lives at 12N B9 (1971), published at a time when in the UK residents in garden suburbs and meticulously designed exurbs were beginning to live through the downside of the knowing solicitude of the town-planners who thought the destruction wreaked by World War Two was an opportunity. Tolstoy is a boy; his residential address fixes him into a ...
Zimmerman, Howard
(? - ) US editor of Starlog magazine 1981-1982, and of two relevant collaborative Anthologies, The Bank Street Book of Science Fiction (anth 1989) and The Bank Street Book of Fantasy (1989), both with Barbara Brenner, Martin H Greenberg (anonymously) and Seymour Reit. The potentially useful ...
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 ...