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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 ...
Cook, Canfield
(1899-1952) Canadian-born aviator and author, in US from early manhood (naturalized 1935), in active service with the Royal Flying Corps during World War One. He wrote almost exclusively on aviation matters, with a focus on the future of flying; he was most visible during World War Two, both for his involvement in documentaries and lectures about the war in the air, and for his Lucky Terrell Flying Stories, mostly ...
Transhuman Space
Role Playing Game (2002). Steve Jackson Games (SJG). Designed by David Pulver. / Transhuman Space uses an adapted version of the GURPS mechanics to depict a richly realized twenty-second century in which humanity has colonized the solar system, while simultaneously splintering into multiple sub-species which have been variously improved or adapted to extraterrestrial environments (see ...
Science Fiction, Horror & Fantasy
Letter-size Cinema magazine printed on slick glossy paper. Two issues from DW Publications, March and June 1978. Editor: Douglas Wright. Publication was quarterly. / An interesting failure among the flood of film publications which hit US newsstands in the late 1970s, Science Fiction, Horror & Fantasy featured more colour photos than most of its rivals. #1 had an Interview with Ray ...
Iggulden, John
(1917-2010) Australian businessman, anthologist and author whose sf contribution is restricted to his first novel, Breakthrough (1960), portraying a Dystopia set in a Near Future land governed in totalitarian fashion by a dictator whose regime uses surgically implanted radio-controlled devices for purposes of repression. By this means all subjects can be remotely traced, subjected to neural ...
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 ...