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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik von
(1909-1999) Austrian political philosopher, journalist and author, in the UK and US between 1935 until after World War Two; although he was highly (if eccentrically) conservative, his comments on Nazi Germany – he felt that the philosophy underlying all twentieth-century revolutionary tyrannies was nothing but a corroded form of democratic modernity – had made him persona non grata in German-speaking lands. Of sf interest is Moscow 1979 ...
Human Nature
Film (2001). Fineline Pictures and Studiocanal present a Good Machine production in association with Beverly Detroit Studios and Partizan. Directed by Michel Gondry. Written by Charlie Kaufman. Cast includes Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto and Tim Robbins. 96 minutes. Colour. / A hypertrichotic nature writer (Arquette) and a wild man raised as an ape (Ifans) become enmeshed in a love quadrangle with a prissy scientist (Robbins) and his ...
Armfield, Julia
(1990- ) UK author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Mantis" in Neon for May 2018. Her first novel, Our Wives Under the Sea (2022), which hints Equipoisally at a Horror-In-Sf "explanation", follows the protagonist's slowly intensifying acquaintance with grief as her wife suffers/undergoes metamorphosis into something like the benthic creature she has encountered in a ...
Miller, John J
(1954-2022) US author, who began publishing work of genre interest with "Comes a Hunter" in Wild Cards (anth 1987) edited by George R R Martin, followed shortly by his first Tie, Buck Rogers: First Power Play (1990), part of the Buck Rogers: The Inner Planets Trilogy subseries. He also contributed to the Ray Bradbury Presents sequence [see Checklist below]. His two ...
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 ...