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Broderick, Damien
(1944-2025) Australian author, editor and critic; he had a PhD in the semiotics of fiction, science and sf with special reference to the work of Samuel R Delany. He edited four anthologies of Australian sf: The Zeitgeist Machine (anth 1977), Strange Attractors (anth 1985), Matilda at the Speed of Light (anth 1988) and Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction (anth ...
Smith, Ernest U
(? -? ) US author whose Prehistoric SF tale, Rachel: A Story of the Great Deluge [for subtitle see checklist below] (1904), describes the Biblical Flood in scientific terms, and traces the course of human history through the wanderings of the survivors of the deluge. [JC]
Groff, Lauren
(1978- ) US anthologist and author, active from around 2005, most of whose work is nonfantastic, though the consumerist America that traps her protagonists seems hellbound into Ecological suicide; her tales often therefore seem to register (if only tacitly) a pressure of unease awaiting us at the crossroads into the next day, which may no longer be mundane. Her second novel, Arcadia (2012), does in fact devolve into a full sf ...
SFRA Newsletter
US Digest-format magazine, the official newsletter, mostly monthly, of the Science Fiction Research Association; founded 1971, current, 215 issues to January/February 1995, edited by Fred Lerner (1971-1974), Beverly Friend (1974-1978), Roald Tweet (1978-1981), Elizabeth Anne Hull (1981-1984), Richard W Miller (1984-1987), Robert A ...
Robinson, Spider
(1948- ) US-born author who became a Canadian Landed Immigrant in 1975, married to Jeanne Robinson from 1975 until her death in 2010. His first story, "The Guy with the Eyes" in Analog for February 1973, inaugurated the long-running Callahan series of Club Stories, which continued into the twenty-first century. He has sometimes written tales as by B D Wyatt. The first ...
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 ...