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Williams, Tess

(1954-2025) UK-born teacher, editor and author, in Australia for many years, there receiving a degree in literature from Curtin University and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Padwan Affair" in She's Fantastical (anth 1995) edited by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex. Of sf interest are two novels: Map of Power (1996), set mostly in a ...

Lostetter, Marina J

(?   -    ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Rats Will Run" in Mirror Shards: Volume Two (anth 2012) edited by Thomas K Carpenter; the tale is included in Lifeboats: Three Short Stories of Space Travel and Epic Discovery (coll 2017 ebook). She came to wide attention with the Noumenon sequence beginning with Noumenon (2017), which begins on Earth in the moderately distant- ...

Reid, Iain

(1981-    ) Canadian author whose novels to date, beginning with I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2016) are horror; that first novel was filmed as I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. Fog (2018) strongly evokes Horror in SF through its frame narrative: in the Near Future, a married couple is ...

Miasek, Don

(?   -    ) Canadian anthologist and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "For Mankind" in Polar Borealis for January 2020; his first novel, Pale Grey Dot (2024), which is a Space Opera set on a Space Station orbiting Jupiter, requires its cast to modify its Cyberpunk ...

Held, Serge

(1892-1969) Ukrainian-born French consulting engineer and author of La Mort du Fer (1931; trans Fletcher Pratt as "The Death of Iron" [September-December 1932 Wonder Stories]), a Disaster tale – a mysterious virus destroys all iron in the world – which leads to a confused collapse of civilization (see ...

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 ...



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