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Whiteley, Aliya
(1974- ) UK author primarily associated with fantasy, beginning with her first story, "Geoffrey Says" in Shred of Evidence for November 2004; much of her shorter work is assembled in Witchcraft in the Harem (coll 2013). Her first novel, Mean Mode Median (2004), is nonfantastic, as is Three Things About Me (2006), a contemporary Satire. Though clearly not rooted in sf conventions, her later novels ...
Cole, Myke
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Shouting Down the Moon" in The Book of Final Flesh (anth 2003) edited by James Lowder, which appeared more or less simultaneously with his first novel, Car Trouble (2003), a Tie to the Wildsidhe Chronicles Shared World fantasy sequence. He is of sf interest for the ...
Horsnell, Horace
(1882-1949) UK playwright, drama critic and author, active in English literary circles from around 1910. His sf novel, Man Alone (1940), describes the experiences of the Last Man on Earth as he wanders through London after the final, depopulating Disaster. Castle Cottage (1940) is a ghost story and The Cool of the Evening (1942) a rather gentle ...
Herrera, Yuri
(1970- ) Mexican political scientist, academic and author, whose first novel, Trabajos del reino (2004; trans Lisa Dillman as Kingdom Cons 2017), unfolds an abstracted crime tale in a moderately surrealized version of the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez, a venue earlier transfigured by Roberto Bolaño into the Santa Teresa of 2666 (2004). His third ...
Rice, Waubgeshig
(1979- ) Canadian journalist, broadcaster and author, active from around 2000; he is Anishinaabe, born in the Wasauksing First Nation, an entity adjacent to Parry Sound, Ontario. He is of sf interest for the Moon of the Crusted Snow sequence beginning with Moon of the Crusted Snow (2018), set in a Near Future world most of which has suffered a systemic collapse, though a remote Anishinaabe ...
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 ...