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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Sound of My Voice
Film (2012). Fox Searchlight Pictures in association with 1737 Films/Skyscraper. Directed by Zal Batmanglij. Written by Marling & Batmanglij. Cast includes Chris Denham, Brit Marling and Nicole Vicius. 85 minutes. Colour. / A couple infiltrate a cult led by a woman claiming to be from the future and preparing for a coming apocalypse; they secretly film a documentary intended to expose her, but are drawn in different directions as their commitment is tested by a series of ...
McCaffery, Larry
(1946- ) US academic, author, editor and literary critic, a retired professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University, California. He began publishing essays of genre interest with "Form, Formula, and Fantasy: Generative Structures in Contemporary Fiction" in the Eaton Conference volume Bridges to Fantasy (anth 1982) edited by Eric S Rabkin, Robert Scholes and ...
Greenland, Colin
(1954- ) UK academic and author, partner of Susanna Clarke from 1996; from 1980 to 1982 he was the Science Fiction Foundation Writer in Residence at the Polytechnic of East London, where the Foundation was then housed; he had taken a PhD in sf at Oxford, and published his thesis in revised form as The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the UK "New Wave" (1983), for which ...
Casper, Susan
(1947-2017) US editor and author, married to Gardner Dozois until her death. She began publishing sf with "Spring-Fingered Jack" for Fears (anth 1983) edited by Charles Grant. Her fiction in collaboration with Dozois is assembled in Slow Dancing through Time (coll 1990), which includes one collaboration with both Dozois and Jack M Dann. These stories are also ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...