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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author, active from around 1950, several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
Jamnia, Naseem
(? - ) US neuroscientist and author, who designate themselves as Persian-Chicagoan, active from 2015 or earlier. They began publishing work of genre interest with "Nothing Less Than Bones" in Pride: Quarterly Magazine for early 2020, which in expanded form became their first novel, The Bruising of Qilwa (2022). The tale cannot safely be described as sf, though in common with many texts published in the twenty-first century sf elements ...
Kaul, Fedor
(circa 1901-1960) German-born film critic and author, active in 1920s Germany, in UK from 1932. His sf novel, Die Welt ohne Gedächtnis (untraced but ?1933; trans Winifred Ray as Contagion to this World 1933), begins conventionally enough with a deformed Scientist, thwarted in love, determining to revenge himself on the world by releasing dangerous bacteria he has developed; this ...
Warhola, James
(1955- ) American artist, nephew of artist Andy Warhol. After obtaining a BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1977, he moved to New York to pursue work as a commercial artist. He began his career in sf art with a clever cover for a 1982 edition of Philip José Farmer's The Book of Philip José Farmer (coll 1973), showing the author typing on Mars with Edgar Rice ...
Briggs, Stephen
(1951- ) UK author, illustrator, actor and playwright, long associated with the Discworld setting created by Terry Pratchett. The extensively annotated map The Streets of Ankh-Morpork: Being a Concise and Possibly Even Accurate Mapp of the Great City of the Discworld (1993), designed in collaboration with Terry Pratchett and executed by Stephen Player, was followed by other such ...
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 ...