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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Hunter, Megan
(1984- ) UK poet and author whose first novel, The End We Start From (2017), sets an intimate story involving childbirth and childcare in straitened circumstances against an increasingly intrusive Near Future backdrop. The protagonist mother's waters breaking, and the rapid flooding of London as systems collapse due to Climate Change, are metaphorically joined ...
NewMyths
US Online Magazine of sf and Fantasy, published by Scott T Barnes with Susan Shell Winston as its primary editor. Quarterly, December 2017 to current. / NewMyths covers an eclectic range of topics, its best-of Anthologies being divided by theme rather than by year: these include dreams and supernatural experiences, eras coming to an end, and non-human awareness [see Checklist below]. ...
Ordover, John J
(1962- ) US editor, author and scriptwriter, a former editor at Pocket Books where for many years he oversaw that publisher's numerous Ties to the Star Trek franchise. He began to publish fiction of genre interest with "Thus I Refute Kafka" in New Destinies for Fall 1990, releasing several further stories up to 2001 and publishing some reviews in The ...
Porter, Kathy
(? - ) US author of Gray/Guardians (2007 pod; rev vt Earth's Ultimate Conflict 2010), the first of the projected Gray/Guardians sequence, set in the Near Future when Earth, vastly suffering from Climate Change, is tempted by two separate Alien civilizations: one promising to evacuate humanity to a safer planet; the other ...
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 ...