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Nuttall, Alice
(? - ) UK Comics writer and author, in the latter of fantasy tales directed to the younger regions of the Young Adult market; active from around 2013. The Zombie Project (2025) depicts a Near Future world struggling to survive the devastations of Climate Change and Ecological decline. All ...
Prime, Lord
Pseudonym of US author Walter Doty Reynolds (1860-1933), whose sf novel, Mr Jonnemacher's Machine: The Port to Which We Drifted (1898), is a Future History told from twenty-first century perspective, in which is described how Automation – represented by a Machine capable of performing all the functions of a textile mill without human intervention – threatens the ruin of ...
Sugar, Rebecca
(1987- ) American animator, director, writer, producer, artist and musician. Sugar identifies as bisexual and non-binary, using she/her and they/them pronouns. She studied at the School of Visual Arts, New York; one of her animated shorts from this period was Singles (2009), about a man whose one room apartment is located in his chest. On entering the apartment he can be seen in the chest of a larger version of himself, just as in his chest a smaller version ...
Rawle, Graham
(1955-2024) UK artist, designer and author, best known for the long Lost Consonants series of comic collages released from 1990 to 2005; his profusely illustrated 2009 edition of L Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz (1900), using the original text, won him two British Book Design and Production awards. He is of some sf interest for Overland (2018), which fantasticates an historical event from 1942: the construction of a fake town ...
Organlegging
A virtually self-defining sf term based on "bootlegging" and denoting the illicit acquisition of and dealing in human organs and other bodily parts. It was coined by Larry Niven in early stories of his Known Space series, in particular those collected in The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton (coll 1976), beginning with "The Organleggers" (January 1969 Galaxy; vt "Death by Ecstasy" in The Shape of Space, coll ...
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 ...