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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Logan, Michael
(1970- ) Scottish journalist and author who is of sf interest for Apocalypse Cow (2012), a gonzo exercise in comic Equipoise in which it is discovered that an infected British cow, which is in fact a bovine Zombie, has escaped slaughter; chaos soon churns the Near Future up. [JC]
Miller, John Jackson
(1968- ) US Comics writer, editor and author who began his career with Comic Retailer in 1993, working as an editor; his first script was for Crimson Dynamo, a comic in the Marvel Comics stable. H also wrote Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a Graphic Novel Tie to ...
Moyer, J D
(? - ) US composer of electronic music and author, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Beef" in Strange Horizons for May 2016. The Reclaimed Earth sequence beginning with The Sky Woman (2018) is set in a moderately distant Near Future after a complexly-caused set of Disasters, including one supervolcano, has devastated ...
Hailey, Arthur
(1920-2004) UK author, in Canada from 1947, best known for heavily researched novels, like Hotel (1965) and Airport (1968), where an insider intimacy adds frisson to numerous crises; of sf interest is In High Places (1962), a Near Future tale whose focus of intimacy is (uncommonly) the Canadian federal government, and upon the Prime Minister's response to the threat of a US ...
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 ...