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McAuley, Paul J
(1955- ) UK biologist and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Wagon, Passing" in Asimov's for June 1984; his best shorter work has been assembled as The King of the Hill and Other Stories (coll 1991), The Invisible Country (coll 1996), Little Machines (coll 2005) and the comprehensive A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction of Paul McAuley (coll 2013), ...
3rd Rock from the Sun
US tv series (1996-2001). Created by Bonnie and Terry Turner. Producers include the Turners, Bill Martin, Mike Schiff, Marcy Carsey, and Caryn Mandabach. Directors include Terry Hughes, Robert Berlinger, and James Burrows. Writers include the Turners, Martin, Schiff, Christine Zander and Bob Kushell. Cast includes Jane Curtin (Dr Mary Albright), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Tommy Solomon), Kristen Johnston (Sally Solomon), Wayne Knight (Officer Don Orville), John Lithgow (Dick Solomon) and ...
Burnham, Sophie
(? - ) US author whose Ex Romana sequence beginning with Sargassa (2024) is set in an Alternate History North America whose Jonbar Point unpacks from the Roman exploration of the Atlantic during the reign of Augustus Caesar (63 BCE-14 CE), and the consequent establishment of Roma Sargassa. After much history, including a Pandemic ...
Evaristo, Bernardine
(1959- ) UK academic,activist, journalist, editor, poet and author, active from around 1990; most of her work, through its technical devices and adventurous procedures, is teasingly adjacent to Fantastika without the free violations of the "real" she sometimes evokes. Soul Tourists (2005), partly told in verse, conveys its two protagonists on (as it were) a nonfantastic Fantastic Voyage ...
Saintcrow, Lilith
(1976- ) US author of several series in closely associated genres, most of them incorporating more than one mode: the mix usually involves paranormal romance topoi, sometimes in connection with Vampires, sometimes with Werewolves; and Urban Fantasy [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below], sometimes set in the ...
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 ...