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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
Rumfitt, Alison
(? - ) UK poet and author whose T(y)ranny (coll of linked poems 2019 chap) focuses on the imagined experience of a trans woman (see Transgender SF) in a Dystopia based (critically) on Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985). Her first novel, Tell Me I'm Worthless (2021), is a ghost story. [JC]
Pelevin, Victor
(1962- ) Russian author active from the beginning of the 1990s; some of his early Absurdist short stories have been assembled as A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories (coll trans Andrew Bromfield 1998) – and whose first novel, Omon Ra (1992; trans Andrew Bromfield 1994), established his name as a Satirist of the excesses of USSR/Russia. Barely sf as it ...
Land, Jon
(1957- ) US author, frequently of Technothrillers that maintain an edgy proximity to full sf, particularly in the Blaine McCracken series beginning with The Omega Command (1984) and ending with Dead Simple (1998), the last being typical in its use of an Invention just beyond current Technology – in this case a new explosive – to ...
Buffini, Moira
(1965- ) UK dramatist, screenwriter, actor, director and author, active from the late 1980s, best known for her plays, in several of which rambunctious anachronisms may represent an insertion of a perhaps somewhat stagey Fantastika into nonfantastic works. An early example is Silence (performed 1999; 1999 chap), in which complications attending the end of the first millennium CE are intensified by second-millennium shout-outs. ...
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 ...