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Gibson, Naomi
(1988- ) English author now in Scotland, whose first novel, the Young Adult Every Line of You (2021), traces the perhaps undue intimacy between its young protagonist and the boyfriend-like AI-powered Android she has created to help her solve a life crisis. Together they engage in some activities that seem dubiously legal. [JC]
Terraforming
If the Colonization of Other Worlds is not to be restricted to those that prove almost-exact duplicates of the Earth, some form of adaptation will be necessary; the colonists might adapt themselves by Genetic Engineering, as in James Blish's Pantropy series, or cyborgization (see Cyborgs), as in Frederik ...
Tibbets, Anne
(? - ) US author whose Young Adult The Line sequence, beginning with Carrier (2014 ebook), is set in a Dystopian Near Future American where female teenagers are housed in coercive Keeps where they serve as Sex slaves. With a young man she has come to love, they attempt to escape into the ...
Taylor, S S
(? - ) US author whose Young Adult Expeditioners series beginning with The Expeditioners and the Treasure of Drowned Man's Canyon (2012) is set in an Alternate World version of Earth which boasts a wide range of previously unknown continents (see Imperialism), giving its young protagonists various opportunities to attempt to trace ...
McConaghy, Charlotte
(1988- ) Australian author much of whose work has been fantasy for Young Adult readers. Her third series, The Cure sequence, beginning with The Fury (2014 ebook) [all volumes later issued in print form], is set in a Near Future Dystopian world where the eponymous Drug, injected annually, eliminates ...
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 ...