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Morressy, John
(1930-2006) US academic connected with Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire from 1968, latterly as Writer Emeritus; and author who, After two nonfantastic novels, began his sf career in December 1971 with "Accuracy" for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, where most of his short fiction appeared. Morressy's early books were generally Space Opera, through which medium he constructed a series of interesting ...
Martin, Peter
(? - ) A name long thought to have been the working name of UK author Peter Martin Leckie; but members of Leckie's family have stated that Peter Martin Leckie was not this Peter Martin. The name was used for the sf novel, Summer in Three Thousand: Not a Prophecy – A Parable (1946), in which a progressive Utopian World Island state is contrasted with a war-torn conservative ...
Goebbels, Heiner
(1952- ) German musician and composer, widely recognized for his innovative radio, concert and multimedia works which frequently make use of literary sources. Schatten/Landschaft mit Argonauten (performed 1990; 1993; vt SHADOW/Landscape with Argonauts) has words from "Shadow: A Fable" (September 1835 Southern Literary Messenger) by Edgar Allan Poe, juxtaposed with a contemporary ...
Ursula K Le Guin Prize for Fiction
Juried Award presented since 2022 in memory of Ursula K Le Guin, for a book-length work of imaginative fiction published in the USA which "reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula's own work, including but not limited to: hope, equity, and freedom; non-violence and alternatives to conflict; and a holistic view of humanity's place in the natural world." The eligibility window, formerly including January to March ...
England, Terry
(1949- ) US journalist and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Jason and the D'Jinn" as Terry D England for Pandora #15 in 1986. His sf novel, Rewind (1997), examines issues of Biology and Paranoia as Aliens – prior to their mysterious departure – transform seventeen human adults into children; the novel ...
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 ...