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Soto, Adam
(? - ) US musician, editor and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Animal Fires" in Fairy Tale Review: The Transcendent Issue (anth 2017) edited by Benjamin Schaefer. His first novel, This Weightless World (2021), is set initially in 2012 Chicago, just after SETI research has broken the news that a Communication has been received from an ...
Bujold, Lois McMaster
(1949- ) US author who began publishing sf with "Barter" for Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, March/April 1985. Almost all her published sf work is part of a loose series of often humorous adventures set in a future of feuding galactic colonies connected by Faster-than-Light "Wormhole jumps". Most of these stories feature members of ...
Esensja
Polish Online Magazine (2000-current). Created in 2000 through the merger of two earlier online magazines, Framzeta (published 1999-2000 by the SF Framling fan club, ed. Konrad R. Wągrowski) and The Valetz Magazine (1998-2000, ed. Artur Długosz). The magazine has been edited continuously by Konrad Wągrowski (Artur Długosz has been its co-editor in its early years). / Esensja became one ...
Mars [film]
Russian film (1968). Lennauchfilm. Directed and written by Pavel Klushantsev. Briefly seen cast members are unidentified. 50 minutes. Black and white. / This successor to Klushantsev's Space Documentaries Doroga k Zvezdam and Luna focuses on the planet Mars, devoting most of its length to a discussion of how humans have long ...
Brust, Steven
(1955- ) Hungarian-descended US author, almost exclusively of Fantasy, notably the long Vlad Taltos series and the swashbuckling Alexandre Dumas-like Khaavren Romances set earlier in the same universe. He is mentioned here chiefly for Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille (1990), an intermittently comic spoof about a saloon which dodges atomic ...
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 ...