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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 ...
Tillyard, Aelfrida
(1883-1959) UK religious thinker, medium, activist and author who began publishing as early as 1905, but who first gained attention for editing Cambridge Poets 1910-1913: An Anthology (anth 1913); she published mostly under her own name, though some work was released as by Mrs Constantine Graham. She is now probably best remembered for her two 1930s Scientific Romances (others, written in the 1950s, remain unpublished). Set after a series of ...
Klass, Judy
(1967- ) US playwright and author, daughter of occasional sf short story writer Morton Klass (1927-2001), niece of Philip Klass (William Tenn) and sister of David Klass, most of whose work of sf interest has been short stories, of which she has published over twenty since 1995, including "We'll Have Manhattan" (April/May 2004 Asimov's). Her first sf publication was a ...
My Life as a Teenage Robot
US animated tv series (2003-2007). Frederator Studios. Created by Rob Renzetti. Directors include Randy Myers, Rob Renzetti, Chris Sauve and Tim Walker. Writers include John Fountain, Heather Martinez, Brandon Kruse and Bernie Petterson. Voice cast includes Thora Birch, Chad Doreck, Eartha Kitt, Quinton Flynn, Janice Kawaye, Candi Milo, Cree Summer and Audrey Wasilewski. 75 eleven-minute (excepting three double-length) episodes. Colour. / Sometime in the future, elderly ...
Partridge of Sintaluta
Pseudonym of Canadian teacher and author Edward Alexander Partridge (1862-1931), active from as early as 1883 in Sintaluta, Manitoba, where he co-founded the idealistic Territorial Grain Growers' Association in 1901; the full range of his views are more freely expressed in A War on Poverty: The One War That Can End War (1925), in which a socialist Utopia is established as the independent state of Coalsamao, legally separate from the rest of Canada. ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...