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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 ...
Taylor, Bert Leston
(1866-1921) US editor, columnist, poet and author, some of whose tales move into the fantastic, but usually to spoof targets of his mild Satire. He is most famous for his A Line o' Type or Two column for the Chicago Tribune from 1901 until his death. Of his short fiction, "The Caves of Fire" (May 1898 Black Cat) with Edward Ward describes the Invention of an electrical device which, passed through glass, is capable of ...
Morey, Leo
Working name of American artist Leopoldo Morey y Pena (1889-1965). Born into a well-to-do family in Peru, he studied engineering at Louisiana State University and briefly did illustrations for a newspaper in Argentina before returning to America to work as an artist, first in New Orleans and later in New York City. Some interior art and covers for Hugo Gernsback's Science and Invention presumably brought him to the ...
Felker-Martin, Gretchen
(? - ) US journalist and author whose first novel, the Near Future Dystopian Manhunt (2022), is set in an America ravaged by a Pandemic that afflicts those with a sufficient testosterone level, ie males, turning the survivors into feral Monsters. In an extremely violent world (see ...
Zeta One
UK film (1969; vt The Love Slaves; vt Alien Women; vt The Love Factor). Tigon British Film Productions. Directed by Michael Cort. Written by Cort and Alistair McKenzie. Cast includes Dawn Addams, Anna Gaël, Robin Hawdon, Charles Hawtrey, James Robertson Justice, Wendy Lingham and Yutte Stensgaard. 86 minutes. Colour. / Spy James Word (Hawdon) seduces (or is seduced by) his boss's secretary, Ann Olsen (Stensgaard), and reveals to her the secret of the ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...