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Williams, Tess
(1954-2025) UK-born teacher, editor and author, in Australia for many years, there receiving a degree in literature from Curtin University and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Padwan Affair" in She's Fantastical (anth 1995) edited by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex. Of sf interest are two novels: Map of Power (1996), set mostly in a ...
Dobson, Bonnie
(1940- ). Canadian folk singer-songwriter. Her best-known song, "Morning Dew", first recorded for the album Bonnie Dobson at Folk City (1962), tells of the last surviving man and woman after a nuclear apocalypse (see Post-Holocaust), with a lavish string arrangement to embellish the simple folk melody. The lyrics were inspired by the film On the Beach (1959), directed by Stanley ...
Pressfield, Steven
(1943- ) Trinidad-born screenwriter and author, in US from early childhood; of his several screenplays, those filmed include King Kong Lives (1986) directed by John Guillermin, a Monster film; and Freejack (1992), which is sf. His first novel, The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life (1995), which was unsuccessfully filmed as ...
Duffy, Maureen
(1933- ) UK author several of whose books focus on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced (as he has acknowledged clearly) Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988), and similar later works by Iain ...
Weverka, Robert
(1926-2009) US author, who also wrote as by Robert McMahan. He is known solely for Ties: to the Television series Search (1972-1973) – comprising Search (1973) and Moonrock (1973) – and to several films, including Hangar 18 (1980) with Charles E Sellier Jr (1943-2011), which novelizes Hangar 18 (1980). [JC]
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 ...