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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 ...
Dank, Gloria Rand
(1955- ) US author whose first novel, The Forest of App (1983), was a compact and intensely told Young Adult fantasy, in which the Thinning of the old world is seen as fundamentally damaging to its survivors [for Thinning see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. The Galaxy Gang sequence beginning with A UFO Has Landed (1983), written ...
Ward, George Whiteley
(? -? ) UK author who published occasionally in English magazines from around 1900; his juvenile tales for Chums, like "The Chessmen of Ghor Khi Laht" (19 January 1924 Chums), are apparently fantastic. He is of sf interest for Drelma: A Tale of the Great Sahara (1908), a Lost Race tale in which Ancient Egyptians are discovered in the modern Sahara. [JC]
Queen
UK pop/rock band comprising singer Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), guitarist Brian May (1947- ), drummer Roger Taylor (1949- ) and bassist John Deacon (1951- ). After rather floridly pompous beginnings, Queen hit the big time with the single "Bohemian Rhapsody" (on their fourth album, A Night at the Opera, 1975), a splendidly inventive and rousing portmanteau song about the battle between demons and angels for a ...
Młody Technik
["Young Technician"] Polish popular science and technology magazine (1932-current) for younger readers. Originally founded in 1932 under the current title; renamed 1935-1950 as Młody Zawodowiec ["Young Practitioner"]. For most of its history it appeared monthly. / Under editor-in-chief Zbigniew Przyrowski (who led the magazine from its 1950 relaunch until 1981), Młody Technik became an important venue for sf during the communist era. In ...
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 ...