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Yep, Laurence
(1948- ) US author who began publishing sf with "The Selchey Kids" for If in February 1968; one story, "In a Sky of Daemons" (in Protostars, anth 1971, ed David Gerrold and Stephen Goldin) appeared as by L Yep. Most of his books have been written for children or Young Adults, including the sf Sweetwater (1973) – his ...
Perrin, Don
(1964- ) Canadian author and game designer born in Germany, a former military officer; married to Margaret Weis from 1996 but later divorced. He has contributed to Weis's Dragonlance sequence and other Fantasy Role Playing Game franchises. Of sf interest is the Knights of the Black Earth/Mag Force 7 Space Opera trilogy opening ...
Zheng Wenguang
(1929-2003) Chinese author, born in Vietnam to ethnic Chinese parents, repatriated in the early days of the People's Republic, sometimes called the "father of Chinese sf" for establishing, in his article "Tantan Kehuan Xiaoshuo" ["Discussing the SF Novel"] (1958 Dushu Ribao), the didactic tone of Children's SF that allowed the genre to survive in an authoritarian environment hostile to imaginative fiction. A research fellow at ...
O'Doherty, Carolyn
(? - ) US executive in a non-profit institute devoted to city planning, and author whose Rewind trilogy, beginning with Rewind (2018), is sharply Equipoisal between Young Adult fantasy and sf, the use of whose topoi hints at serious underlying arguments. Much of the tale is set in or concerns the escape from a coercive Keep where, in a ...
QUARK/
US Original-Anthology series from Paperback Library 1970-1971, edited by Samuel R Delany and the poet Marilyn Hacker – they were married 1961-1980 – and subtitled "A Quarterly of Speculative Fiction". QUARK/ was the most overtly experimental and New-Wave of the anthology series of the early 1970s, and provoked some hostility in the sf ...
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 ...