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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 ...
Butler, D J
(1973- ) US lawyer and author who also signs as Dave Butler and D John Butler, much of whose work has consisted of fantasy series, along with a small number of stories and several series of sf interest. The first of these, the Alternate History City of Saints sequence beginning with Liahona (2012 ebook), depicts the American Civil War in Steampunk terms, featuring ...
Farris, Clelia
(1967- ) sf author from Italy who has won multiple awards for her work. Farris's interests are wide ranging, resulting in stories and novels about everything from Genetic Engineering and soul-transference to the Colonization of Other Worlds and Time Travel. The recurring motif of murder investigations (see ...
Kołodziejczak, Tomasz
(1967- ) Polish author of Fantastika; also a screenwriter, publisher, and editor of books, Comics, and Role-Playing Games. / He debuted at age 17 with the serialized short story "Kukiełki" ["Rag Dolls"] (22-29 September 1985 Przegląd Techniczny #38-#39) and quickly became active in Polish sf Fandom, ...
Tea, Travis
1. An alternate Pseudonym of the unidentified sf author who wrote as Dustin Lasser. / 2. This joke "travesty" byline was independently used by a team of over thirty sf/fantasy authors and editors – including Michael Armstrong, Pierce Askegren, Andrew Burt, Adam-Troy ...
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 ...