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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
Eshkar, Shelley
(1970- ) American artist. His background and interests are unlike those of traditional sf artists, for after receiving a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 1993, he has focused most of his attention on digital art, experimental animation, and multimedia presentations, often collaborating with artist Paul Kaiser. He has become a fixture of the New York art scene, regularly exhibiting his innovative artwork and films at museums and staging unusual dance recitals in ...
Gordon, Bert I
(1922-2023) US filmmaker who typically directed, produced, co-wrote, and did the special effects for his low-budget productions in collaboration with Flora May Gordon (1925-2016) during their marriage (1945-1979). After serving in World War Two and making some Television commercials, he began his film career with King Dinosaur (1955), a generally dire saga of the discovery of living Dinosaurs ...
Brundage, Margaret
(1900-1976) US illustrator, resident in Chicago. Best-known for her erotic covers for Weird Tales, Brundage was apparently the first woman artist to work in the sf/Fantasy field, and the first of either sex whose covers for these magazines featured nudes. Her female subjects (see Women in SF) are generally described as damsels in distress; however, as they posed provocatively wearing little or no ...
Morris, James
(? - ) UK author of The Escapist (2005), a Near Future thriller set in a Cyberpunk-tinted venue, which the street-wise hero has little real difficulty in negotiating as he tracks down a roge AI. [JC]
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 ...