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Crowley, John
(1942-2026) US teacher and author who also worked in documentary films and television for some time beginning in 1966. His sf novels have had a considerable impact on the field, and his fantasies established him as a figure whose work courteously but deeply stretched the boundaries of genre literature. / His first novel, The Deep (1975), is set on a flat discworld resting on a pillar that extends beyond measurement into the circumambient galactic Deep, in which very few stars ...
Hamilton, Lady Mary
(1736-1821) Scottish novelist, active from around 1777. She is a figure of double interest in studies of Gender: her complex biography has in the past aroused more interest (in male scholars) than her actual work; and central to that work is the Feminist Utopia Munster Village (1778 2vols), which gained considerable fame during her lifetime: its second translation into French, as ...
Golan the Insatiable
US animated tv series (2013-2015). ADHD, Amazing Schlock, Double Hemm, Friends Night. Created by Josh Miller. Executive Producers include Hend Baghdady and Nick Weidenfeld. Directors include Douglas Einar Olsen. Writers include Pat Casey and Josh Miller. Voice cast includes Mary Mack, Josh Miller, Aubrey Plaza and Rob Riggle. Twelve 11-22 minute episodes. Colour. / Golan (Miller/Riggle), a horned, demonic "God-lord, commander of all that was seen and unseen" from the Gkruool ...
Šteger, Aleš
(1973- ) Slovene poet, editor and author, active from the mid-1990s as a poet, the literary form for which he is best known. He is of some sf interest for Odpusti (2014; trans Noah Charney and Urška Charney as Absolution 2017), set in a surreal version of the Slovenian City of Maribor (see Fantastika), whose legitimate history has been coercively replaced by theories of reality ...
Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
(1991- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Finkelstein 5" in Printer's Row for July 2016, which was assembled with other early work in Friday Black (coll 2018). The conspicuously gonzo intensity of his short fiction is intensified in the pounding, pyrotechnic narrative strategies that drive his first novel, Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023), set in a not-unfamiliar Near-Future ...
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 ...