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Bond, Nancy
(1945- ) US author best-known for her Young Adult fantasy, A String in the Harp (1976). Of her other works, The Voyage Begun (1981) is sf, in which a quixotic scheme to build a boat in a world ravaged by Pollution and punishing scarcity becomes a moving study of an attempt to come to terms with the real world; and in Another Shore (1988) a young woman finds herself in ...
Delrio, Martin
Joint pseudonym of writing team Debra Doyle and James D Macdonald – or possibly a House Name, though used almost exclusively by these authors for several Ties, beginning with Mortal Kombat (1995 chap), and more recently a MechWarrior: Dark Age sequence beginning with MechWarrior: Dark Age: A Silence in the Heavens (2003). All ...
Garby, Lee Hawkins
(1890-1953) US author, wife of the chemist Dr Carl Garby (1890-1930), a school-friend of E E "Doc" Smith, with whom she collaborated between 1915 and 1920 on the manuscript of The Skylark of Space: The Tale of the First Inter-Stellar Cruise (August-October 1928 Amazing; 1946; cut rev 1958), for which she was credited. The 1958 abridgement of this hugely influential Space Opera seems ...
Jefferson, Alan
(? - ) UK amateur musician and artist whose sole release, Galactic Nightmare (1986) is a concept album about a passenger "starliner" (see Starship) which crash-lands on the planet Zeon. After being attacked by an Alien Monster, the survivors meet a man who has aged prematurely after being captured by a race called The ...
Wright, Ronald
(1948- ) UK-born historian, travel-writer and author, in Canada from 1970. His sf novel, A Scientific Romance (1997), explicitly acknowledges a close connection to H G Wells, whose first Scientific Romance The Time Machine (1895) (see Time Machine; Time Travel) provides a model for the later book, as do the vivid ...
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 ...