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Dann, Jeanne Van Buren
(1949- ) US editor, married 1983-1994 to Jack Dann, with whom she edited In the Field of Fire (anth 1987), which contains a number of powerful stories set in the tragic venue of Viet Nam. [JC]
Spiritualised
UK band, formed by and in effect wholly comprising Jason Pierce (1965- ), who sometimes records under the alias "J. Spaceman". There is a floaty, dreamy quality to much Spiritualised music that is focused sometimes through Religion ("Walking With Jesus", "Angel Sigh", both tracks on 1993's album Fucked Up Inside) and sometimes via sf, or more specifically space travel. The band's third studio album ...
Starquest
Videogame series (from 1980). Automated Simulations (AS). Designed by Jon Freeman. / The members of the Starquest series are early examples of the Computer Role Playing Game form, modelled after their designer's successful Dunjonquest fantasy sequence but set in the same Future History as Starfleet Orion (1978). In the ...
Tuckwell, William
(1829-1919) UK minister, teacher and author, well-known for his advocacy of "Christian socialism" and for broadening school curricula to include science. He was not an author of fiction, though his essay in Futures Studies, The New Utopia; Or, England in 1985: A Lecture (1885 chap), which was influenced by William Morris's arcadian philosophy, eloquently describes Utopia in terms ...
Stilson, Janet
(? - ) US journalist and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Imaginary Children" in Asimov's for July-August 2020, a tale associated with her Charismites sequence beginning with The Juice (2021), which is set in a Near Future Dystopian post-Cyberpunk world. The "juice" is a ...
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 ...