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Adam, Pip
(? - ) New Zealand author, active from 2005 or earlier. Her first novel, the Near Future I'm Working on a Building (2013), revolves around the physical and metaphysical implications of the construction of an immense, patently phallic tower; the cowers. In her third novel, Nothing to See (2020), control over human Perceptions, as exercised through modern surveillance ...
Asselineau, Charles
(1820-1874) French editor and author, perhaps best known for his association with Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), with whom he edited Les Poëtes français ["The French Poets"] (anth 1861-1863 4vols). He was influenced by the arguments of Emanuel Swedenborg to the effect that dreams had visionary substance, which Asselineau took as potentially authenticating dreams as giving glimpses into other times and places (see J W ...
Brown, Molly
(? - ) Working name of American-born UK stand-up comedienne and author Doris Mary Brown, who began publishing work of genre interest with "Bad Timing" (December 1991 Interzone); this won the BSFA Award for best short story of that year. The black humour of the tale – its inept Time-Travelling protagonist basically leaves the woman whose photograph he has ...
Thrills Incorporated
Australian magazine, Pulp format #1-#5, Bedsheet format #6-#12, Digest format #13-#23, numbered, undated, mostly monthly March 1950 to June 1952, published by Associated General Publications, Sydney, company name changed to Transport Publications from #13; mostly edited by (uncredited) by Alister Innes. Thrills Incorporated was intended for adolescents. Although US reprints ...
Cooper, Clare
Working name of Brenda Clare Cooper (1935- ), UK author – not to be confused with the US writer Brenda Cooper – almost exclusively of novels for Young Adult readers, beginning with David's Ghost (1980). Of her tales of genre interest, the Simon Jones sequence, beginning with The Black Horn (1981), is fantasy; Earthchange (1985) describes a ...
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 ...