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Ward, Richard Heron
(1910-1969) UK actor, playwright, director, broadcaster and author, active from the early 1930s, some of whose nonfiction is of interest, including The Powys Brothers: A Study (1935), whose subjects include John Cowper Powys, and A Drug-Taker's Notes (1957) as R H Ward, a strongly analytic description of the effects of LSD use (see Drugs). He is of sf interest for The Sun Shall Rise ...
Plum-Ucci, Carol
(1957- ) US author of novels for the Young Adult market; The She (2003) is a horror tale; the Streams of Babel sequence, comprising Streams of Babel (2008) and Fire Will Fall (2010), depicts a Near Future bioterrorist attack on America through the eyes of afflicted teenagers, who may be able to discover an effective response. [JC]
Robson, Kelly
(1967- ) Canadian author, married to A M Dellamonica, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill" in Clarkesworld for February 2015. Waters of Versailles (10 June 2015 Tor.com; 2015 ebook) is an historical fantasy. Of sf interest is Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach (2018), which begins in the ...
Williams, Graham
(1945-1990) UK Television producer, script editor and author, best known for his involvement with the Doctor Who universe, a fruit of which was Doctor Who: The Nightmare Fair (1989), written from scripts not televised because the BBC had decided to cancel the series in 1985. By this point Williams had left the BBC altogether. [JC]
Spain
Mostly influenced by Jules Verne and Camille Flammarion, Spanish nineteenth-century Proto SF featured four voyage-to-the-Moon tales, beginning with the anonymous didactic utopia Viage de un filósofo a Selenópolis ["Selenopolis"] (1804); Joaquín Castillo y Mayone's oneiric story Zulema y Lambert ["Zulema and Lambert"] ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...