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Kunzru, Hari
(1969- ) UK journalist and author, active from around 1995. In Transmission (2003), his first novel of sf interest, a programmer for a firm involved in biomedical research is laid off, and in revenge releases a Computer virus whose dissemination causes chaos as Communications systems collapse worldwide (see also Information Theory). ...
Hayes, Frederick William
(1848-1918) UK architect, painter, playwright and author whose Utopia, The Great Revolution of 1905, or The Story of the Phalanx: With an Introductory Account of Civilisation in Great Britain at the Close of the Nineteenth Century (1893; vt State Industrialism: The Story of the Phalanx; With an Account of Civilization in Great Britain at the Close of the Nineteenth Century 1894), describes from a 1930s perspective the successful efforts of ...
Garnier, Jean-Paul L
(1981- ) US editor, poet and author of mostly speculative fiction who also publishes as Jean-Paul Garnier. He is best known as the editor of Star*Line, the official print journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association (now the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association). His editorship, beginning in 2021, has been marked by consistency and dedication. Dozens of poems ...
Kaveney, Roz
(1949- ) UK critic, editor, author and poet. Her sf criticism, beginning in the late 1970s (before 1980 as by Andrew Kaveney), has appeared in such specialist journals as Foundation and in non-genre outlets including the Washington Post and Books and Bookmen; it is marked by a seemingly off-hand general erudition and a knowing sharpness about the field; she created the term ...
Dabos, Christelle
(1980- ) French author best-known for The Mirror Visitor sequence of Young Adult tales beginning with Les fiancés d'hiver (2013; trans Hildegarde Serle as A Winter's Promise 2018), initially readable as relatively straightforward fantasy featuring a young protagonist with Psi Powers – the ability to divine the meaning of past objects and to pass physically ...
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 ...