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Walker, Paul
(1942-2007) US critic and author in whose sf novel, Who Killed Utopia (1980), the first murder to have taken place for a century brings suspicion upon the poet/Computer at the heart of things. Walker contributed book reviews to Galaxy in 1978, and in the same year published a collection of thirty-one sometimes very informative postal Interviews, ...
Banister, Manly
(1914-1986) fan and author responsible for an early Fanzine of professional quality, The Nekromantikon (1950-1951), which ran to five issues, but who had earlier begun publishing fiction of genre interest with "Satan's Bondage" for Weird Tales in September 1942. Egoboo: A Fantasy Satire (1950 chap) is a short Time-Travel spoof which satirizes sf ...
Wood, Nick
(1961-2023) Zambian-born clinical psychologist and author, raised in South Africa and USA, later resident in the UK, He began to publish work of genre interest with "African Shadows" as Nicholas Wood in Scheherazade 18 dated 1999, his first professional sale being "God in the Box" in Interzone for March 2003. His debut novel, The Stone Chameleon (2004), Equipoisally mixes a depiction of ...
Strickland, James R
(1967- ) US author of two novels in the Drumlin series, Drumlin Circus (2011 dos) and On Gossamer Wings (2011 chap dos), both with Jeff Duntemann, the series creator (who see for details). Solo, Strickland has written two singletons: Looking Glass (2007), a Near Future Cyberpunk tale set in a ...
McDonald, Steven E
(1956- ) UK author, now in the US, who began publishing sf with "Empty Barrels" in Analog for June 1978, his best-known story being "Ideologies" (October 1980 Analog), and whose first novel, The Janus Syndrome (1981), put into Space-Opera guise a tale involving racial oppression, romantic exaggerations of material, and masquerades. He then fell silent, though he has more ...
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 ...