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Sallis, James
(1944-2026) US musician, poet and author, briefly active in New Worlds during its Michael Moorcock-directed New-Wave phase; he began to publish work of genre interest in this context with "Kazoo" (August 1967 New Worlds) and co-edited the magazine 1968-1969. His clearly acknowledged models in the French avant garde and the gnomic brevity of much of his work ...
Takami Kōshun
Working name of Hiroharu Takami (1969- ) a Japanese author whose sole work to date has been much refashioned and adapted across several media. A graduate of Osaka University's Literature department, where he specialized in the aesthetics of fine arts, Takami worked for several years as a journalist for the provincial newspaper Shikoku Shinbun. His debut novel, the Satire Battle Royale (1999) was ...
Grin, Alexander
Working name of Russian writer Alexander Grinevski (1880-1932), some of whose work in English translation was signed as by Alexander Green; active from around 1907. Though his range was wide (much of his work is only in the twenty-first century in the process of translation), there is a central stream of tales clearly shaped by story forms out of Fantastika, though sf elements tend to be submerged. In his first work to come to prominence, Alye parusa ...
Collins, Bridget
(1981- ) UK actor and author active in the latter capacity, usually as by B R Collins, from the publication of The Traitor Game (2008), the first of several Young Adult novels, some containing fantasy elements. She is of wider interest for her two adult novels. The Binding (2019) is a fantasy about the ability of Story to tell the life of its teller. The Betrayals (2020) is no more fantasy than ...
MF DOOM
(1971-2020) The most widely used and best-known pseudonym (always styled in all capitals) of UK-born rapper Dumile Thompson, in the US from childhood, and a enduring influence on underground hip-hop. His mask-wearing stage persona derived from the Marvel Comics character Victor Von Doom (Doctor Doom), upon whom he based another of his pseudonyms, Viktor Vaughn. It was under this name that he recorded his sf album, Vaudeville Villain (2003), ...
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 ...