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Hildebrandt, The Brothers
Working name for the team of American artists Gregory J Hildebrandt (1939-2024) and Timothy Mark Allen Hildebrandt (1939-2006), identical twin brothers, although they also worked separately using the working names Greg Hildebrandt and Tim Hildebrandt. They will forever be regarded primarily as the definitive illustrators of J R R Tolkien because of the famous Tolkien calendars that featured their paintings of his characters; oddly enough, except for one 1975 ...
Hartridge, Jon
(1934- ) UK author associated, like Brian W Aldiss, with the Oxford Mail, of which he was features editor, and for which he wrote reviews of considerable interest. His sf novels are Binary Divine (1969), in which a Computer, in the conviction that it is god, creates a Dystopia; and Earthjacket (1970), in which attempts to redeem Earth from an ...
O'Mahony, Daniel
(1973- ) UK author, chiefly of Ties to the Doctor Who universe, beginning with Doctor Who: The New Adventures: Falls the Shadow (1994); of these, Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures: The Man in the Velvet Mask (1996) stands out for its inclusion of the Marquis de Sade as a central character. Force Majeure (2007) is a Fabulation with marginal sf ...
Miles, Patricia
(1930- ) UK author for children's and Young Adult markets, some of whose work is of sf interest, including The Gods in Winter (1978), an Equipoisal tale whose young protagonists, who live in a scientific research establishment with their parents, witness an incursion of ancient gods; Lowther Hall (1981) and Mind Pirates (1983) share a similar graceful gravity of ...
Wang Lixiong
(1953- ) Chinese political activist and author, whose sole genre novel to date was banned in the People's Republic but widely read among overseas Chinese. The son of a screenwriter and the vice-president of an automobile factory, Wang was exiled to the Chinese countryside from 1969-1973 for "re-education" during the Cultural Revolution. His father committed suicide in 1968. Rehabilitated as a model worker and permitted to attend the Jilin ...
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 reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...