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Dashner, James
(1972- ) US author whose work has been restricted to three Young Adult series, the first of which, The Jimmy Fincher Saga, beginning with A Door in the Woods (2003), is fantasy. The 13th Reality sequence, beginning with The Journal of Curious Letters (2008), sets its young protagonist the sf-coloured task of protecting the vast number of Alternate Worlds created ...
John Carter
Film (2012). Walt Disney Pictures (see The Walt Disney Company). Directed by Andrew Stanton. Written by Stanton & Mark Andrews and Michael Chabon, based on A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (February-July 1912 All-Story as "Under the Moons of Mars" as by Norman Bean; 1917). Cast includes Lynn Collins, Willem ...
Glynn-Ward, Hilda
Working name of UK-born author Hilda Glynn Howard (1887-1966), in Canada from 1910. She is of sf interest for her violently racist Yellow Peril novel, The Writing on the Wall – In Three Parts Past Present and Future (1921) (see Race in SF). Set in British Columbia, the tale describes the insidious Invasion of Canada by Japanese and Chinese forces masked as immigrants, from ...
Ma, Yiming
(1989- ) Chinese-born financial analyst and author, in US and Canada from childhood. His first novel, These Memories do Not Belong to Us (2025), is a collection of linked stories he has dubbed a "constellation novel": in this case, an array of tales, told through the coercive mediation of an intracranial device known as the Mindblank lodged in the hippocampus. In a moderately distant Near Future ...
Algol
US Semiprozine (1963-1984) edited from New York by Andrew Porter, subtitled "The Magazine about Science Fiction". Algol began as a duplicated Fanzine but in the 1970s became an attractive printed magazine in letter-size format, published four times a year. With #34, Spring 1979, it changed its name to Starship; it ceased publication with #44, Winter/Spring 1984, its twentieth-anniversary ...
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 ...