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Williams, Tess
(1954-2025) UK-born teacher, editor and author, in Australia for many years, there receiving a degree in literature from Curtin University and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Padwan Affair" in She's Fantastical (anth 1995) edited by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex. Of sf interest are two novels: Map of Power (1996), set mostly in a ...
Sanford, Jason
(? - ) US editor, author and blog commentator on the sf scene who began to publish work of genre interest with "Rumpelstiltskin: Private Eye" in Newfangled Fairy Tales: Book 2 (anth 1998) edited by Bruce Lansky; much of his shorter output is fantasy, though at least one volume, Heaven's Touch and Other Science Fiction Stories (coll 2019), is sf. The Plagues sequence beginning with Plague Birds (short version ...
Glynn, Alan
(1960- ) Irish author, principally of detective stories, whose first novel The Dark Fields (2001; vt Limitless 2011) explores illicitly enhanced Intelligence through Drugs in a crime/Technothriller idiom; the faithful film version Limitless (2011) directed by Neil Burger shares and magnifies its combination of ...
de Vigan, Delphine
(1966- ) French author, active from around 2000, who has also published as by Lou Delvig. D'après une histoire vrai ["Based on a True Story"] (2015), filmed as Based on a True Story (2017) directed by Roman Polanski, hints at Identity Exchange in its depicting of the gradual transference of characteristics between a writer and the woman she has befriended (see also ...
Found Footage
A term infelicitously but irreversibly appropriated since 1999 to denote fictional feature films, particularly in Horror genres, which emulate venerable epistolary and documentary modes of textuality by using elements of non-fiction film form and simulated amateur-video footage. (Previously the term had marked a class of documentary film distinguished by the incorporation of archive and amateur footage into an assembled feature with or without commentary, a ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...