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Edwards, Malcolm
(1949-2026) UK editor, critic and publisher, educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in anthropology. Active in UK sf Fandom in the 1970s and early 1980s, he published the first complete text of James Blish's "The Science in Science Fiction" (May 1951-May 1952 Science Fiction Quarterly) in his Fanzine Quicksilver #2 in 1971; edited the ...
Mottram, R H
(1883-1971) UK banker, poet and author, in active service during World War One; he published in 1907 and later some early poems as by J Marjoram, but effectively initiated his long and prolific writing career with the famous Spanish Farm trilogy beginning with The Spanish Farm (1924), a fictionalized chronicle of his World War One experiences upon which his reputation stands, though all his work shows the ...
Bow, James
(1972- ) Canadian author, initially of Young Adult fantasy, who began to publish work of genre interest with "A Stone of the Heart" with Erin Bow, in Missing Pieces (anth 2001) edited by Shaun Lyon and Mark Phippen. His first series, the Unwritten Books sequence beginning with The Unwritten Girl (2006), follows its young protagonists' lives in a Toronto where stories come ...
Suk, Sarah
(? - ) Canadian author of Young Adult fiction. She is of sf interest for The Space Between Here & Now (2023), a Time-Travel tale whose young protagonist's shifts to earlier parts of her own life are generated by smell; at one point she inhabits her own mother's Memories. This is taxing. Meet Me at Blue Hour ...
Ridgway, Keith
(1965- ) Irish author resident most recently in London, active since 1997 or earlier. His earlier work, often exploring Gender issues, is nonfantastic. He is of sf interest for the Equipoisal Dooneen (2026), whose protagonist Teleports from a mundane London back to an Alternate-World version of his home ...
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 ...