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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 ...
Dehan, Richard
Pseudonym of Irish-born journalist, cartoonist, playwright, actor and author Clotilde Augusta Inez Maria Graves (1863-1932), in UK from around 1870; active from about 1884, her first plays being written later in that decade, as Clotilde Graves. Beginning with The Dop Doctor (1910), she wrote as by Richard Dehan; reprints of her work, including some titles originally published as Graves, continue to use the pseudonym. Of sf interest in Off Sandy Hook and Other Stories (coll ...
Daniel, Mark
Working name of UK author Mark Daniel Fitzgeorge-Parker (1954- ) whose first novel, The Laughing Man (1984), is a political thriller set in the Near Future with little or no speculative content; Chocky's Challenge (1986) is a tie to Chocky's Challenge (1986 6parts), a Thames Television sequel to John Wyndham's Chocky (March 1963 ...
Ellinger, Geoffrey
(1904-1990) UK author of detective novels who flourished in the early 1930s; in his one title of sf interest, The Blasted Acre (1936), a business consortium gets a monopoly on radium (see Elements; Nuclear Energy), threatening the world. [JC]
Joly, Cyril
(1918-2000) UK army officer, amateur inventor and author. His sf novel is Silent Night: The Defeat of NATO (1980), in which, over the course of one night, the disaster adumbrated in the subtitle takes place, at some point in the Near Future. / This author has also been wrongly identified as Cyril M Joly Jr (1925-2004), US politician, mayor of Waterville, Maine, and Maine state senator. [JC/SH/DRL]
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 ...