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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author, active from around 1950, several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
Mutant X
US tv series (2001-2004). Fireworks Entertainment/Tribune Entertainment/Marvel Studios. Syndicated. Created by Avi Arad. Produced by Adam Haight and Peter Mohan. Cast includes Karen Cliche, Forbes March, Victoria Pratt, John Shea, Lauren Lee Smith and Victor Webster. Directors included Andrew Potter, Bill Corcoran, Jorge Mantesi. Writers included Marak Amato, Howard Chaykin and David Newman. 66 44-minute episodes. Colour. / Mutant X is the name ...
Reid, Ava
(1996- ) US author, initially of fantasy for Young Adult readers, some of this work ambitious and taxing (she has been compared to authors like Shirley Jackson and Kelly Link). She is perhaps best known for A Study in Drowning (2020), set in a past-raddled academy or Keep in Wales with mythopoeisis afoot. Reid is of sf interest for ...
Online SF Resources
No modern reference work can ignore the valuable online resources which have grown and proliferated since this encyclopedia's second edition in 1993. Wikipedia is generally the researcher's initial port of call, with its entries usually appearing in first place (and almost certainly on the first page) of results from any internet search. Though its depth of coverage of individual authors varies wildly, Wikipedia information on sf is often very voluminous, especially for topics with a popular ...
Harkin, Jo
(? - ) UK author whose first novel, Tell Me an Ending (2022), is set in an Alternate History present day, a world increasingly concerned with the consequences of a policy of voluntary Memory Editing that seems to have kept the lid on the high anxieties of a culture much like ours, but – almost fatally – also entailed wiping any memory of having had one's ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...