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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Hall, Sarah
(1974- ) UK author whose second novel, The Electric Michelangelo (2004), skirts Fantastika through the life story of a tattooist. Of direct sf interest is her third novel, The Carhullan Army (2007), which comprises a fragmented record of events, laid down long before its discovery (see Ruins and Futurity) by a young woman brought up in a ...
Chiang, Ted
(1967- ) US author who has produced many stories since he began to publish work of genre interest with "Tower of Babylon" in Omni for November 1990, which won the first of his four Nebula awards to date, for best novelette; he also received the John W Campbell Award for best new writer in 1992. His second Nebula was for "Story of Your Life" (in Starlight 2, anth ...
Moran, Richard
(1942-2009) US author whose Near Future Disaster thrillers – beginning with Cold Sea Rising (1986), in which volcanic action melts the Ross Ice Shelf in the Antarctic – usually import Technothriller elements into their storylines, giving room for heroic action which turns the tables. Novels of this sort include Dallas Down (1988) and the Meade sequence ...
Eyes of Wakanda
US animated tv series (2025). Marvel Studios Animation, Proximity Media. Directed by Todd Harris and John Fang. Written by Marc Bernardin and Geoffrey Thorne, based on the setting initially created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee for Marvel Comics; part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Voice cast includes Zeke Alton, Jacques Colimon, Adam Gold, Winnie ...
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 ...