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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
Iceland
Iceland's literary history is littered with the fantastical and weird; J R R Tolkien and C S Lewis were influenced in their writing by Icelandic sagas, which had been translated by William Morris. But ventures into the general field of sf were rather rare until recently. The short story "Jólaförin árið 2000" ["Christmas journey in the year 2000"] (Christmas 1900 ...
Pereira, W D
(1921-2014) UK aviation engineer, advertising executive and author whose first books, beginning with Time of Departure (1956), concentrated on flying. He began writing sf with Aftermath 15 (1973), which depicts a Dystopian Post-Holocaust America whose inhabitants are rigidly stratified according to how much radiation they have absorbed. The projected sequels, «Aftermath 16» and ...
Fantastic [comic]
US Comic (1952). Two issues (numbered #8 and #9). Youthful Magazines. Artists include Harry Harrison, Henry Kiefer, Steve Kirkel and Vince Napoli. Four strips per issue, plus a two-page article ("Mental Telepathy – Does It Exist?") in #8 and a text story in #9. / The numbering follows Captain Science, and issue #8 opens with the final Captain Science story: crashing on an ...
Wilder, Myles
(1933-2010) US television comedy scriptwriter and producer, son of filmmaker W Lee Wilder. He was involved with three minor 1950s sf films produced and directed by his father, writing the original story for Phantom from Space (1953) and collaborating on its screenplay with William Raynor, whose solo screenplay for Killers from Space ...
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 ...