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Kornher-Stace, Nicole
(1983- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Pieces of Scheherazade" in Zahir for March 2006; her first novel, Desideria (2008), though it resists generic fixing, presents its Amnesia-afflicted protagonist (see Women in SF) in a manner typical of twenty-first century Fantastika. The Winter Triptych (2011 chap) though ...
Wagner, Jane
(1935- ) US stage director, screenwriter and author, best known for her work in collaboration with her wife the stand-up comedian and actor Lily Tomlin (1939- ); of their work together, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (first performed 1985; 1986), filmed as The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1991) (see Theatre), is of sf interest, in particular ...
Elliott, Laura
(? - ) UK disability campaigner, journalist and author, active from around 2010. Her first novel, the Near-Future Awakened (2025), is set in a Dystopian London where the Invention of a neural chip designed to eliminate the need for sleep has created Monsters instead of an exploitable work ...
Logue, Les
(? - ) US author of The Day The Sun Shone Down (2008), a Holocaust tale whose protagonist, trapped briefly in the Holland Tunnel, finds Manhattan (see New York) deserted after he escapes. [JC]
Morse, David
(1940- ) US journalist, poet and author whose sf novel, The Iron Bridge (1998), very effectively utilizes a Time Travel structure: the protagonist, from an America ravaged by Climate Change, Pollution and War, travels to 1773 England where she hopes to find a Jonbar Point in the sabotage the building of ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...