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Lourie, Richard
(1940- ) US historian, translator and author whose Near Future sf novel, Zero Gravity (1987), spoofs the Cold War (already beginning to fade in 1987) as two poets are sent to the Moon on conflicting cultural missions, but they kick their heels up and defect. The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin (1999), though nonfantastic, conveys in fictional language the ...
Oliver, Jerome
(1886-? ) US author of Khan, Phantom Emperor of 1940 (1934), a Near Future tale in which a threatened world conflagration, as plotted by the eponymous aspirant to world domination (see Yellow Peril), is averted. [JC]
Taylor, Joelle
(1967- ) UK poet, playwright and author, active from the early 1990s, several of her early plays, like Naming (performed 1994 Oval House Theatre, London), gaining some reputation, without necessarily reaching publication, for their frontal confrontations with a range of connected issues (see Feminism, Sex). She began publishing poetry with Ska Tissue (coll 2011 chap); her fourth collection, ...
Tang, Andrea
(? - ) US author who specializes in Young Adult fiction, including her first work of genre interest, "The Necromancer's Apprentice" in Expanded Horizons for August 2012. The Rebelwing sequence beginning with Rebelwing (2020) is set in a balkanized, surreally shattered, Dystopian Near Future America divided into various safe ...
Rouff, Marcel
(1877-1936) Swiss-born French author of a Future History, Voyage au monde à l'envers (1 October-15 November 1920 Mercure de France; 1923; trans Brian Stableford as Journey to the Inverted World 2011), whose aviator narrator, having disappeared from a Europe convulsed by World War One, finds himself in Australia two millennia hence, which he ...
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 ...