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Edwards, Malcolm
(1949-2026) UK editor, critic and publisher, educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in anthropology. Active in UK sf Fandom in the 1970s and early 1980s, he published the first complete text of James Blish's "The Science in Science Fiction" (May 1951-May 1952 Science Fiction Quarterly) in his Fanzine Quicksilver #2 in 1971; edited the ...
Palmer, Jane
(1946- ) UK author and illustrator who began writing sf with the Moosevan sequence – comprising The Planet Dweller (1985), Moving Moosevan (1990), Duckbill Soup (2011) and Brassica Park (2018) – which presents a comic set of Parodies of sf Clichés as the giant Shapeshifting ...
Sherrow, C G
(? - ) US author in whose sf novel, Goorg-Chee: A Sci-Fi Quest for Freedom (2003), a human being awakens in a state of Amnesia, along with a number of beings who represent a range of Alien species; some sort of Godgame has clearly commenced. It may be that these various species are being tested for fitness. [JC]
Panico en el Transiberiano
Film (1972; vt Horror Express; vt Panic on the Trans-Siberian Express). Granada/Benmar. Directed by Eugenio Martin. Written by Arnaud d'Usseau, Julian Halevey. Cast includes Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Telly Savalas. 90 minutes, cut to 88 minutes. Colour. / In this Spanish/UK coproduction the year is 1906. The body of an apparent "missing link", dug up in China by an anthropologist (Lee), comes to life on the Trans-Siberian Express and turns out to be an ...
Gibson, Naomi
(1988- ) English author now in Scotland, whose first novel, the Young Adult Every Line of You (2021), traces the perhaps undue intimacy between its young protagonist and the boyfriend-like AI-powered Android she has created to help her solve a life crisis. Together they engage in some activities that seem dubiously legal. [JC]
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 ...