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Millar, Ali
(1980- ) Scottish author, whose first book, The Last Days (2022), which is nonfiction, describes her upbringing as a Jehovah's Witness, and her apostasy (surprisingly late) as a married woman. She is of sf interest for her first novel, the Near Future Ava Anna Ada (2024), each of these palindromes beginning with the letter A. Britain is beset not only by exponential ...
Tepper, Sheri S
(1929-2016) US author whose first genre publications were poems under her then married name Sheri S Eberhart, the earliest being "Lullaby, 1990" in Galaxy for December 1963. She then fell silent as an author, beginning to write again only once she was in her fifties, producing sf and fantasy as Tepper, a horror novel as by E E Horlak, and non-fantastic detective novels (not listed below) as by B J Oliphant and A J Orde. Her first-written novel, a long, complex work of ...
Reynolds, Eric T
(1956- ) US anthologist, publisher and author, perhaps best known for a succession of Anthologies, beginning with Golden Age SF: Tales of a Bygone Future (anth 2006), which usefully transact the deep repertoire of Genre SF, mixing old and new material. The Ruins sequence of Original Anthologies beginning with Ruins Terra (anth 2007) ...
Kantner, Paul
(1941-2016) US musician, best known as one of the founders of Jefferson Airplane. During the 1970s, when his band was in temporary abeyance, Kantner recorded a sf concept album Blows Against the Empire (1970), released as by "Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship" (a usage that predated the formation of the group of that name by four years). The album concerns a group of freedom-fighters (they believe in "free minds, free bodies, free dope, ...
Kimagure Robot
Japanese animated webseries (2004; vt The Capricious Robot). Studio 4°C. Based on the stories of Shinichi Hoshi. Directors include Yasuhiro Aoki and Yasuyuki Shimizu. Voice cast comprises Toshiyuki Itakura (all male voices) and Megumi (all female voices). Ten two-minute episodes. Colour. / Sometime in the future, The Doctor – a partially Cyborged, slightly ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...