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Ellis, D E
(1926-2001) UK author briefly active in the early 1960s with "Stress" in New Worlds for September 1961 and the routine A Thousand Ages (1961; vt Space Voyage 1973). [JC]
Soukup, Martha
(1959- ) US author whose work, beginning with "Dress Rehearsal" for Universe 16 (anth 1986) edited by Terry Carr, has been restricted to short stories, and who has published several stories whose surface clarity conceals taxingly insistent examinations of readerly assumptions. Soukup won a Nebula Award for Best Story for "A Defense of the Social Contracts" (September 1993 ...
Okungbowa, Suyi Davies
Working name of Nigerian academic and author Osasuyi Okungbowa (1989- ), in Canada for some time, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Breaking the Habit" in Omenana for September 2015 as by Sui Davies. His first novel, David Mogo, Godhunter (2019), foretells his work to come in its complex use of Equipoisal counterpointing of narrative elements that might seem jostling, but which arguably well befit the ...
Mars Machines
US animated online tv series (2024). Positronish Productions. Created by Lavie Tidhar and Nir Yaniv. Directed, animated and scored by Nir Yaniv. Written by Lavie Tidhar. Cast includes Digger Mesch, Russell Wilcox and Anne Wittman. Seven 4-6 minute episodes. Colour. / Initially conceived by its creators as a sort of Waiting for Godot on Mars, with a clear nod to Thomas M Disch's ...
Kuczka, Péter
(1923-1999) Hungarian publisher and critic who, beginning in the 1960s, was a powerful force in the renaissance of Hungarian sf, even during a period of Hungarian history not conducive to literary experiment (though the situation was liberalized in the 1970s). In 1968 Kuczka took over as controller and editor of the publisher Móra's brand-new sf imprint Kozmosz Fantasztikus Könyvek, which was and remains the most important sf publisher in Hungary ...
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 ...