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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author, active from around 1950, several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
Posteritas
Pseudonym of the unidentified UK author (? -? ) of The Siege of London (1885 chap), a Battle of Dorking tale in which an incoherent Liberal government in Britain destabilizes the country and gives France the opportunity to mount a successful Invasion, climaxes in the surrender of London and the disintegration of the British Empire. [JC]
Shulman, Dee
(1957- ) South African author and illustrator, in the UK from childhood, whose first book, Hetty the Yeti (2004 chap), was written for younger children. She is of some sf interest for the Young Adult Parallon Trilogy comprising Fever (2012), Delirium (2013) and Afterlife (2014), an updating of the Timeslip romance in which a laboratory experiment ...
Lewis, Gwyneth
(1959- ) Welsh poet, active from the mid-1970s; she publishes in both Welsh and English. She is of sf interest for two narrative poems. Zero Gravity (1998) Equipoises two versions of significant journey: an astronaut's involvement in the repair of the Hubble Space Telescope; and an array of internal odysseys, at least one of them deathwards. More complexly, the Fantastic Voyage undertaken in ...
Metro 2033
Videogame (2010). 4A Games. Designed by Andrew Prokhorov, Vyacheslav Aristov. Platforms: Win, XB360. / Metro 2033 is a First Person Shooter with something of the threatening ambience of a Survival Horror game, based on Dmitry Glukhovsky's original novel, Metro 2033 (2002; trans 2010). Following an apocalyptic ...
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 ...