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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 ...
Burgess, Scott Alan
(1964- ) US fan and critic who has contributed two Bibliographies to the Borgo Press Bibliographies of Modern Authors series: of Reginald Bretnor in The Work of Reginald Bretnor: An Annotated Bibliography & Guide (1989) and of Dean Ing in The Work of Dean Ing: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide (1990 ...
Mysterious Wu Fang, The
US Pulp magazine, seven issues September 1935 to March 1936, monthly, published by Popular Publications; edited by Edythe Seims working for Rogers Terrill. / Intended to capitalize on the popularity of Sax Rohmer's Dr Fu-Manchu (featured in films and a Radio series of the period; see Fu Manchu), The Mysterious Wu Fang showed the ...
Florman, Samuel C
(1925-2024) US civil engineer and author, who wrote competent essays and nonfiction books on his subject of concentration; his one sf novel, The Aftermath: A Novel of Survival (2001), less impressively follows the story of a batch of engineers who survive the Holocaust, founding a town they call Engineering Village in South Africa; and proceed from triumph to triumph. [JC]
Enright, D J
(1920-2002) UK poet, academic, critic and author; he was given an OBE in 1991. Most of his work has no fantastic content, though Heaven Knows Where (1957) Satirizes with a fairly soft brush the attempts of some British academics to construct a Utopia in an Island venue. Of more direct interest is the Atlantis series of Young Adult novels – ...
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 ...