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Duncan, Alexandra
(? - ) US author, resident in North Carolina, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Kinderkochen" in Ravens in the Library: Magic in the Bard's Name (anth 2009) edited by Sandra Buskirk and Phil (as SatyrPhil) Brucato. Her Young Adult Salvage Universe sequence opens with Salvage (2014), an adventure beginning in a Far-Future ...
Potter, Martin H
(1871-1955) UK author of The Sea Surrenders (1911), in which a successful attempt to harness the tides provides a new Power Sources, and Life – The Jade (1912), an sf novel partly set in the Near Future, and partly some decades hence, where the negative implications of progress in Medicine – including an Immortality ...
Heng, Rachel
(1988- ) Singaporean author, in US from adulthood. In her first novel, the Near Future Suicide Club: A Novel About Living (2018), which is set in a vividly cruel New York Media Landscape, a young woman whose genetic makeup gives her the chance of becoming Immortal (see Eugenics) must decide between ...
Thompson, Colin
(1942- ) UK illustrator and author, in Australia from 1995; of his very numerous books, many of them for younger children, he is of sf interest for the Young Adult Future Eden sequence beginning with Future Eden: A Brief History of Next Time (1999), which is set in a severely depopulated Ruined Earth world about 200 years hence. The solitary young protagonist, who lives a hardscrabble ...
Captain Flight Comics
US Comic (1944-1947). 11 issues. Four-Star Publications Inc. Artists include George Appel, L B Cole, Leo Morey, Zoltan Szenics and Maurice Whitman. 52-60 pages: usually 4-6 long strips, a 2 page text story or non-fiction pieces and, from #3, a few short humorous strips. / Pilot Captain Flight has various war-related adventures, sometimes two an issue. Normally there are no fantastic elements, but in #2 he invents the "Pilotless ...
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 ...