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Sallis, James
(1944-2026) US musician, poet and author, briefly active in New Worlds during its Michael Moorcock-directed New-Wave phase; he began to publish work of genre interest in this context with "Kazoo" (August 1967 New Worlds) and co-edited the magazine 1968-1969. His clearly acknowledged models in the French avant garde and the gnomic brevity of much of his work ...
Boey, Eliane
(? - ) Singapore author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Forgotten" in Clarkesworld for July 2022. Much of her work shares a loose Near Future common background, including the two novellas assembled as Other Minds (coll 2023): in the Cyberpunk-inflected Hard-Sf "Other Minds", an ...
Harrison, Niall
(1980- ) UK medical writer, editor and author, active from around 2003, both in Fandom and as a reviewer and critic. He served as Features Editor of Vector (2006-2011), and more demandingly for Strange Horizons as Reviews Editor (2006-2010) and as Editor-in-Chief (2011-2017). A large selection from the critical and review work he published during this period has been assembled as ...
Murderbot
US tv series (2025-current). Depth of Field Productions/Phantom Four Films/Paramount Television Studios. Written and created by Paul and Chris Weitz, based on All Systems Red (2017) by Martha Wells. Various directors, including Paul and Chris Weitz. Cast includes John Cho, David Dastmalchian, Noma Dumezweni, Clark Gregg, Tattiawna Jones, Akshay Khana, Anna Konkle, Tamara Podemsky, Alexander Skarsgård, DeWanda Wise and Sabrina Wu. ...
Ryan, Desmond
(1943-2011) UK-born journalist and author, in the US from 1967, whose very Near Future medical Technothriller, Helix (1979) with Joel N Shurkin, extrapolates from the real effects of Legionnaire's Disease to depict a virulent nationwide Pandemic. [JC]
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...