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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 ...
Quick, Jonathan
Pseudonym (playing on Jonathan Swift) of UK authors Cecil Eldred Hughes (1875-1941) and Harold Begbie, who see for details. [JC]
La Folie, Louis-Guillaume De
(1739-1780) French polymath, industrial chemist and author, member of l'Académie de Rouen, whose surname also appears as de la Follie. His Proto SF tale, Le Philosophe sans Prétention ou L'Homme Rare: Ouvrage Physique, Chymique, Politique et Moral, Dédié aux Savants ["The Unpretentious Philosopher or the Rare Man: A Physical, Chemical, Political and Moral Work, Dedicated to Scholars"] (1775) as M[onsieur] D L F, features ...
Clarke, Neil
(1966- ) US magazine editor and anthologist, best known for publishing and editing the award-winning Clarkesworld, which had its first issue as an Online Magazine October 2006 and is now available in print and other forms. The magazine won the Hugo for Semiprozine in 2010, 2011 and 2013; a ...
Tsamaase, Tlotlo
(1989- ) Motswana author, who began publishing short fiction with "Eco-Humans" in The Fog Horn for March 2014, and made her first professional genre sale with "Murders Fell From Our Wombs" in Apex Magazine for April 2018. A string of excellent shorts quietly followed, in genre publications such as Clarkesworld, The Dark and Prisms (for PS Publishing see Peter ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...