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Williams, Tess
(1954-2025) UK-born teacher, editor and author, in Australia for many years, there receiving a degree in literature from Curtin University and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Padwan Affair" in She's Fantastical (anth 1995) edited by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex. Of sf interest are two novels: Map of Power (1996), set mostly in a ...
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Film (1967; vt Those Fantastic Flying Fools US; vt Rocket to the Moon). Jules Verne Films, Ltd, Warner-Pathé UK, American International Pictures US. Produced by Harry Alan Towers. Directed by Don Sharp. Written by Dave Freeman from an original story by Towers (credited as Peter Welbeck), very loosely based on De la terre a lune (1865) and Autour de la lune (1870) by Jules ...
Dyer, George
(1903-1978) US academic, political historian – instructor in political science at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University – and author of two books of somewhat marginal sf interest. A Storm Is Rising (1934) is about a Near-Future conspiracy to overthrow the American government; in The Long Death: A Catalyst Club Murder Mystery (1937), a proto-nuclear physicist is murdered (by long distance X- ...
Mason, Zachary
(1974- ) US computer scientist and author whose first novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey (2007; rev 2010), though it may be read simplistically as a literary fantasia on Homer's Odyssey, successfully invokes the telling literalism of Fantastika in its rewriting of various episodes of the original in more or less Alternate World terms. Some of the ...
Crawley, Rayburn
Pseudonym of US authors Laura Spencer Portor Pope (1872-1957) and Dorothy Giles (? -? ) for their Yellow Ape sequence, comprising The Valley of Creeping Men (1930) and Chattering Gods (1931), in which two young women – along with the man they both love, and mysterious figures associated with Dr Sergius Marakoff, the Mad Scientist father of one of the girls – find themselves ...
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 ...