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Yolen, Jane
(1939-2026) US author, partially resident in Scotland, who began publishing poems and articles when still in college, and who first came to notice with books for children, the first of many being Pirates in Petticoats (1963). Of her circa 460 titles, many of which won awards in her field, most were for children (see listing below for some of these), many of them being picture books for younger children; most of her adult fiction, of which she wrote relatively little, was ...
Benson, Ann
Working name of US bead artist and author Annalise E Benson Glassman (1950- ), whose Plague Tales sequence beginning with The Plague Tales (1997) conflates two disasters, the fourteenth-century Black Death and a twenty-first century Pandemic in the form of a new assault of bubonic plague. In this first volume, the physician protagonist of the medieval narrative dies in England; in modern times, a medical archaeologist, ...
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Film (2010). Universal Pictures presents a Marc Platt, Big Talk Films and Closed on Mondays production. Directed by Edgar Wright. Written by Michael Bacall and Edgar Wright, based on the Scott Pilgrim series of Graphic Novels (2004-2010) by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Cast includes Satya Bhabha, Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, Anna Kendrick, Brie Larson, Alison Pill, Aubrey Plaza, Brandon Routh, Keita Saito, Shota Saito, Jason Schwartzman, Mae ...
Moroz, Anne
(1953- ) US author of a Near Future sf novel, No Safe Place (1986), whose protagonist alone survives after the death or incurable insanity of all her colleagues on a Spaceship during an encounter with Alien artefacts; on her return to Earth, she is scapegoated by the corporation that owns the ship, and sent back to unravel, for profit, the mystery of the artefacts. ...
Nowa Fantastyka Award
Polish juried Award for the best authors and works of Fantastika published in Polish in the preceding calendar year, established in 2014 by the editors of Nowa Fantastyka. Over time, the award expanded from two to six categories, covering both Polish and translated works, as well as comics and authors. / From 2014 to 2019 the Award had two categories; as of 2025 that ...
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 ...