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Williams, Tess
(1954-2025) UK-born teacher, editor and author, in Australia for many years, there receiving a degree in literature from Curtin University and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Padwan Affair" in She's Fantastical (anth 1995) edited by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex. Of sf interest are two novels: Map of Power (1996), set mostly in a ...
Kelly, Florence Finch
(1858-1939) US journalist, suffragist and author, noted for her early Feminist articles, mostly published from around 1895. She is of some sf interest for the Doppelganger tale, The Fate of Felix Brand (1913), clearly meant to evoke Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), though in this case it is the face-forward "Jekyll", here ...
Pinter, Jason
(1979- ) US editor and author, active in the latter capacity from the publication of The Mark (2007), the first volume in his Henry Parker series of nonfantastic detective thrillers [not listed below] which shares some generic features but should not be confused with John Connolly's Charlie Parker series. After a fantasticated tale for younger children, Zeke Bartholomew: SuperSpy (2011), Pinter ...
Saturn 3
Film (1980). Transcontinental. Produced and directed by Stanley Donen. Written by Martin Amis, from a story by John Barry. Cast includes Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel. 87 minutes. Colour. / With a good director like Donen and a screenplay by Martin Amis, it is difficult to see how so obscene and silly an exploitation movie could come to be. Douglas and Fawcett play the couple alternating romping in bed ...
Thurlow, David
(1932-2021) UK journalist for various local papers, the Daily Express (for 26 years) and The Times; author of several thrillers and true crime books. His sf novel for Robert Hale Limited is The Sleepers (1980), set in a Near Future Dystopian Britain under control of the extreme Left; the only opposition remaining – which proves successful – is the ...
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 ...