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Norman, Donald N
Joint pseudonym of US authors Don Horan (? - ) and Norman Stahl (1931- ), in whose Technothriller Thunder Station (1990), which is set in the very Near Future, America and the USSR come to the brink of committing advanced Weapons and starting World War Three. [JC]
Dann, Jeanne Van Buren
(1949- ) US editor, married 1983-1994 to Jack Dann, with whom she edited In the Field of Fire (anth 1987), which contains a number of powerful stories set in the tragic venue of Viet Nam. [JC]
Dunnett, Roisin
(? - ) UK author whose first book, Animal, Vegetable (coll 2021 chap), conflates the categories inferable from her title into an amalgam of exploratory fictions about the nature of flesh, alterity, sentience, Gender. The initial protagonist of her first novel, A Line You Have Traced (2025), a young woman surviving in the aftermath culture that succeeded ...
Cohen, Gary G
(1934- ) US professor of Biblical Studies, former Army Chaplain, and author of Civilization's Last Hurrah (1974), an sf tale set during a Middle Eastern Future War, in the course of which Israel makes use of a nuclear "laser beam" provided by the United States, and civilization – to the tune of the Book of Revelation – ends. [JC]
Hinton, Craig
(1964-2006) UK scriptwriter and author, of most interest for his work on various parts of the Doctor Who universe; he was a noted fan writer of reviews and other work connected to that universe. His Doctor Who Ties include Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures: The Crystal Bucephalus (1994), Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures: Millennial Rites (1995), Doctor Who: The New Adventures: GodEngine ...
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 ...