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White, Ted
Working name of US editor and author Theodore Edwin White (1938-2026), who also wrote as by Ron Archer, Norman Edwards and William C Johnstone. He was co-editor 1958-1969 of the noted Fanzine Void founded by Gregory Benford and Jim Benford. After working as assistant editor for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1963-1968, he became the sometimes ...
Love
Film (2011). High Fliers. Written and directed by William Eubank. Cast includes Bradley Horne, Corey Richardson and Gunner Wright. 80 minutes. Colour. / In 2039 a lone astronaut is posted to the International Space Station after two decades' abandonment, but loses contact with Earth; in the years of isolation that follow he discovers the journal of a Civil War soldier recounting the 1864 discovery of a mysterious artefact in Arizona, which ...
Hawthorne, Don
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Coming of the Eye" in The Burning Eye (anth 1988) edited by Jerry Pournelle, the opening volume in the CoDominium: War World Military SF Original Anthology sequence set in the Shared World of Pournelle's CoDominium ...
Braxton, Anthony
(1945- ) US saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, whose bewilderingly vast output is most commonly associated with free jazz, in which field he has been hugely influential; but he ranges much more widely. Among his more ambitious works are a series of vocal pieces and operas, several of which touch on Utopian themes. Trillium X (written 2009-2014; first performed 2023; first recording 2025) is a four-hour opera which is ...
Carter, Lauren
(1972- ) Canadian author whose first novel, the Near-Future Dystopian Swarm (2013), which is set at a time after fossil fuels have finally been depleted, follows its protagonist on a dangerous hegira into a ruined City for provender; her return to something like primordial wilderness, which in some narrative traditions might signal the ...
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 ...