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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 ...
Jones, Raymond F
(1915-1994) US author, very active for about fifteen years after he first appeared in Astounding for September 1941 with "Test of the Gods". He was virtually silent in the 1960s; some more routine novels appeared in the 1970s. His best-known short story is the witty "Noise Level" (December 1952 Astounding), an archetypal Astounding tale of Conceptual Breakthrough, scientific ...
Stewart, George R
(1895-1980) US historian and author who obtained his MA from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1920 and his PhD from Columbia University in 1922, afterwards becoming a professor of English at the University of California and concentrating his attention – through novels, literary studies, popular history, etc. – on the Pacific Edge of America (see California). His first book of any importance, Bret Harte: Argonaut and Exile ...
Hertzler, J G
(1950- ) US actor, screenwriter and author. He played the Klingon General Martok (among other roles) in the Star Trek spinoff series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999), and co-authored two series Ties featuring Martok: The Left Hand of Destiny, Book One (2003) and The Left Hand of Destiny, Book Two (2003), both with Jeffrey ...
L'Estrange, Miles
Pseudonym – which can be translated as Unknown Soldier – of an unidentified late-nineteenth-century UK author (? - ) whose What We Are Coming To: A Forecast (1892) describes in Satirical terms its narrator's response to a secular, "progressive" England where women have been emancipated (see Women in SF) and the currency has been decimalized. [JC]
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 ...