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Yager, Jeff
(1990- ) US author in whose Young Adult Near Future novel Atom and Eve (2013) a new Drug designed to fight a killer flu has significant side-effects (see Gender; Sex). Much is learned by the young protagonists. [JC]
Moon Pilot
Film (1962). Walt Disney Films (see The Walt Disney Company). Directed by James Neilson. Written by Maurice Tombragel, based on Starfire (19 March-2 April 1960 Saturday Evening Post as "Moon Pilot"; 1960; vt Moon Pilot 1962) by Robert Buckner. Cast includes Brian Keith, Tommy Kirk, Edmond O'Brien, Dany Saval, Kent Smith, Bob Sweeney and ...
Parker, Joseph W
(? -? ) US author of Doctor Crosby's Strange Experience; Or, a New World by 1944 (1935 chap), in which America becomes a livable Utopia, on socialist principles, in the Near Future. [JC]
Cutter, R H
(? -? ) UK author known only for a Lost Race novel, Reached at Last: A Romance of Nineteenth Century Science Chivalrous Endurance and Perseverance with a Sequel (1886), unusually for this sub-genre set in the Near Future, in which an expedition to the North Pole, travelling in an advanced Airship, comes across a civilized Utopia ...
Tochterman, Vered
(1970- ) Argentinean-born author, in Israel since the age of two. She was a major driving force in the flourishing of the new Israeli fandom scene in the 1990s, vigorously inhabiting the various online forums then coming into being, and playing an important role in the formation of now-established fan institutions, most of which are associated with the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy (see ...
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 ...