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Yang, Neon
(?1982- ) Originally a pseudonym of the Singapore molecular biologist, journalist and author JY Yang (?1982–), who has also written as by June Yang, J Y Yang and JY Neon Yang; they legally changed their name to Neon Yang in 2020. They began to publish work of genre interest with "Interview" as JY Yang in The Ayam Curtain (anth 2012) edited by Joyce Chng and JY Yang as June Yang. Their work is primarily of fantasy interest, though the Tensorate ...
Mills, Sam
Working name of UK journalist and author Samantha Mills (1975- ), who began to publish work of genre interest with "Tic Tac Man" in New Wave of Speculative Fiction: The What If Factor (anth 2005) edited by Sean Wright. Her first novel, the Young Adult A Nicer Way to Die (2006) is nonfantastic suspense-horror; her third, Blackout (2010), is set in a Near Future ...
Butterworth, Michael
(1947- ) UK author, poet, publisher and editor, in the latter capacity initially of the semiprofessional magazine Concentrate (one issue, 1968), devoted to very short stories and poems (see Flash Fiction); then of the underground Corridor (five issues 1971-1974), later called Wordworks (two issues 1975-1976), which he re-launched in 2010 as a contemporary visual arts and writing journal under the title ...
Wyatt, Rachel
(1929- ) UK-born dramatist and author, in Canada from 1957; of some sf interest is her first novel, The String Box (1970), set in a surrealized but seemingly Near Future City (see Absurdist SF) whose inhabitants follow maddening sets of rules to survive; possession of the eponymous box counts enormously. [JC]
O'Reilly, John Boyle
(1844-1890) Irish-born political agitator, journalist, poet and author; for his Fenian activities he was transported to Western Australia in 1867, but soon escaped, arriving in the US in 1869. His sf novel about a republican England, The King's Men: A Tale of Tomorrow (1884) with Robert Grant, S of Dale (a pseudonym of US lawyer and diplomat Frederic Jesup Stimson) and J T Wheelwright (1856-1925), also a New ...
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 ...