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Williams, Tess
(1954-2025) UK-born teacher, editor and author, in Australia for many years, there receiving a degree in literature from Curtin University and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Padwan Affair" in She's Fantastical (anth 1995) edited by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex. Of sf interest are two novels: Map of Power (1996), set mostly in a ...
Luftpirat und sein Lenkbares Luftschiff, Der
["The Pirate of the Air and his Navigable Airship"] German Dime-Novel series, popularly known as Kapitän Mors der Luftpirat; it has no connection with a 1948 series of the same name. One of the most popular series of its day, its author or authors are unknown, but well-known writers like Oskar Hoffmann (1866-1928) may have been involved; and, since its adventures take place alternately on Earth and in space, it may have been written by two people. ...
Schlossel, J
(1902-1977) US author who was a pioneer contributor of Space Opera to the Pulp magazines, ahead of Edmond Hamilton and E E Smith. Schlossel was born in New York but raised in Toronto, Canada, continuing his father's trade as a tailor, returning to the USA in 1921. He published just six stories, enough to make a moderate collection, but none was reissued in book form. ...
Victoire, Camila
(? - ) Canadian author, in Australia for a considerable period, currently resident in Canada. Her first novel, the Young Adult Blood Circus (2023), depicts the distant Near Future presence of a new species of humanoid, which may save or terminate Homo sapiens after centuries of planetary devastation caused by global warming (see ...
Dornbierer, Manú
(circa 1932- ) Mexican author and painter, better known for her work as a journalist, a field where she has received some awards. In the late 1960s, Dornbierer began to publish short stories, mostly Fantasy, always very stylish, well-written and constructed pieces. In 1968, her short story "La grieta" ["The Crack"], later included in the collection Después de Samarkanda ["After Samarkand"] (coll ...
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 ...