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Jimenez, Simon
(1989- ) US author whose first novel, The Vanished Birds (2020), though it does not significantly develop the SF Megatext, gives intimate and prolonged life to a moderately complex tale set in a universe evocative of the Baroque Space Operas of authors like Dan Simmons as well as the coherent ongoing narrative focus of the work of such authors as C J ...
Golden, Christopher
(1967- ) US author, prolific and successful for his many fantasy and horror novels, who is given an entry here mainly for some sf Ties published early in his career. Some of his horror evokes Horror in SF tonalities, like Snowblind (2014), in which a "Great Storm" feels almost planetary in its violence and implications, though the story itself is a classic Answered Prayer tale [see The ...
DesJardin, Marie
(1958- ) US author of a Young Adult sf novel, For the Time Being (1998), set on a planet – which may have been colonized by human explorers – where a group of young protagonists are abducted by Aliens who need their human brains to build a Time Machine; Virtual Reality episodes, Clone ...
Law, Frederick Houk
(1871-1957) US educator and author, whose The Heart of Sindhra: A Novel (1898) is a Lost Race novel set in nineteenth-century northern India, where a revolutionary force is deriving its inspiration from wisdom and treasure emanating from a Lost World in the mountains. [JC]
Fox, Mary
(1798-1864) UK author, an illegitimate daughter of King William IV (1765-1837). Richard Whately (1787-1863), the Archbishop of Dublin, may have written part of the Proto SF novel initially attributed mainly to her; but she seems certainly the author of the frame story of Account of an Expedition (Planned and Conducted by Mr H Sibthorpe) to the Interior of New Holland (1837; rev vt ...
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 ...