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Aresty, Adam
(? - ) US screenwriter and author, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Another Living Body" in Mad Scientist Journal for August 2012; he wrote the script for one full-length horror film, Stung (2015), directed by Bennie Diez (see Horror in SF). Aresty is of direct sf interest for his first novel, the Young Adult Near Future ...
Nawaz, Saleema
(1979- ) Canadian author, active from around 2000; her second novel, Songs for the End of the World (2020), whose protagonists – one the author of a novel about a deadly plague – react variously in the very Near Future as a Pandemic begins to spread, soon infecting New York. Much detail is provided. The outcome is uncertain. ...
Ward, David [2]
(1967- ) Canadian teacher and author whose Grasslands Young Adult sequence beginning with Escape the Mask (2001) places its young cast in a rural world dominated, all the same, by a Dystopian tyranny, which they must escape. Archipelago (2008) takes its contemporary protagonist via Time Travel 14,000 years into the ...
Berens, Lewis Henry
(1855-1913) English-born businessman and author, in Australia from 1876 for some years, whose The Story of My Dictatorship [for various vts see Checklist below] (1887-1888 Our Commonwealth; 1894) with Ignatius Singer, set in the very Near Future, describes in dialogue form the disputatious creation of a Utopia on socialist lines in London. [JC]
Pemberton, Max
(1863-1950) UK magazine editor, newspaper director and author, first editor of Chums 1892-1893, editor of Cassell's Magazine 1896-1906, and later a director of Northcliffe Newspapers. Of more than sixty novels, his most famous is The Iron Pirate: A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea (1 March-2 August 1893 Chums; 1893; vt The Shadow on the Sea: A Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea 1907) and its sequel ...
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 ...