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Stump, D L
(? -? ) US author whose sf novel, From World to World (1896; exp vt The Love of Meltha Laone; Or, Beyond the Sun 1913), describes a transit by Spaceship from Earth to Counter-Earth; various lessons are taken from this opposition of planets, focusing in particular on the advanced Utopia discovered on the latter. [JC]
Harrison, Troon
(1958- ) Canadian author, initially of picture books for children, more recently of Young Adult novels; she is deft with horses. The Tales of Terre sequence [see Checklist] is fantasy. Of sf interest is Eye of the Wolf (2003), set in a Dystopian North America a century hence as it faces a new Ice Age, the young protagonist, whose mother has been inveigled into the warm South, experiences ...
Lerner, Fred
(1945- ) US librarian, historian and bibliographer, now retired. He has written occasional reviews for SF Magazines beginning with Fantastic in 1969, as well as regularly reviewing sf for Voice of Youth Advocates and Wilson Library Bulletin. He edited SFRA Newsletter 1971-1974 and A Silverlock Companion (anth 1988), a study of Silverlock ...
Vadnais, Christiane
(1986- ) Canadian radio programmer and author whose Faunes (coll of linked stories 2018; trans Pablo Strauss as Fauna 2020), set after the virtual elimination of Homo sapiens due to devastating Climate Change, traces through an array of linked narratives set in the sub-Arctic town of Shivering Heights the lives of survivors in the transformed world they cannot easily inherit. Mutations (see ...
Planetary
US Comic-book series by writer Warren Ellis (1968- ) and artist John Cassaday (1971-2024), published by Wildstorm Comics (which later became an imprint of DC Comics). The series ran for 27 issues and was published sporadically from April 1999 to October 2009. Three additional issues outside the main series, one of which crossed over with Batman, were also published in 2000, 2002 and 2003; ...
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 ...