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Edwards, Malcolm
(1949-2026) UK editor, critic and publisher, educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in anthropology. Active in UK sf Fandom in the 1970s and early 1980s, he published the first complete text of James Blish's "The Science in Science Fiction" (May 1951-May 1952 Science Fiction Quarterly) in his Fanzine Quicksilver #2 in 1971; edited the ...
Snodgrass
Short UK tv film (2013), originally shown as part of the series Playhouse Presents. Warp Films. Directed by David Blair. Written by Ian R MacLeod and David Quantick, based on MacLeod's story "Snodgrass" (in In Dreams, anth 1992, ed Paul J McAuley and Kim Newman). Cast includes Annette Badland, Kevin Doyle, Ian Hart and Emma Stansfield. 24 minutes. Colour. / In ...
Tea, Michelle
(1971- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Coke Call" in Noirotica 3: Stolen Kisses (anth 2000) edited by Thomas S Roche, but who had already come to wide notice with The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America (1998), a markedly transgressive memoir and analysis of queer culture, Feminism and Gender issues in general, race (see ...
Penmare, William
Pseudonym of UK author Mavis Elizabeth Hocking Nisot (1893-1973) which she used for two of her novels, the second, The Man Who Could Stop War (1929), being a Near Future Scientific Romance in which the Invention of an immobilizing gas helps thwart a Russian Invasion. She is better known for her detective tales as E H Nisot. [JC]
Teflon, Zeke
Pseudonym of US author, translator, editor and publisher Chaz Bufe (? - ), publisher and chief editor at See Sharp Press since 1984; he also publishes nonfiction as Chaz Bufe. In his Near Future Satire Free Radicals: A Novel of Utopia and Dystopia (2012), the protagonist, framed on Earth for anti-social behaviour leading to terrorism, finds himself on a ...
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 ...