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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
Sinclair, Tollemache
(1825-1912) Scottish landowner, politician and author; he has been registered as the earliest-born person to have made a gramophone recording, a spoken comment laid down in 1906, but more precisely he was the earliest to record on a gramophone disc as opposed to a phonograph cylinder. In The Great Battle of Katsh-Tartar Bazardjik!! (coll 1877 chap), a polemical collection of stories, articles and squibs about nineteenth-century disputes between Russia and Turkey, one section is of ...
DiLouie, Craig
(1967- ) US author who has concentrated for most of his career on Horror and fantasy, beginning with Paranoia (2001), a supernatural thriller involving paranormal powers, the Illuminati, and the predicted assassination of an American president. Interspersed with material of this not unusual sort and of not remarkable calibre are tales of sf interest, the first of these being ...
Young, Jim
Working name of US officer in the American diplomatic service, actor and author James Maxwell Young (1951-2012), whose first novel, The Face of the Deep (1979), is set in a medieval environment located – it soon becomes clear – on the planet Bok II, which is threatened by an exploding Sun, but the natives cannot grasp the Cosmology implications of this coming event. The style is gritty, the action compressed; and ...
Cahill, Matt
(1970- ) Canadian film production manager, psychotherapist and author, active in film work from around 2000. He is of sf interest for his first novel, The Society of Experience (2015), whose bereaved protagonist is recruited by the eponymous organization, members of which may claim to be Secret Masters, to undergo an experiment in Time Travel. Interpenetrations of ...
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 ...