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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 ...
Ollivant, Alfred
(1874-1927) UK author who had been a soldier; a riding accident left him crippled (badly for ten years), and – long before the outbreak of World War One – he turned to writing. He remains best-known for his first book, Owd Bob (1898; vt Bob, Son of Battle 1898), about a wise and subtle sheepdog; he is of sf interest for his last book, To-morrow: A Romance of the Future (1927), in which twenty-fourth century ...
Mullin, Mike
(? - ) US author whose major work is the Ashfall trilogy comprising his first novel Ashfall (2011), Ashen Winter (2012), and Sunrise (2014), together with the related novella Darla's Story (2013 chap), all set in the aftermath of Disaster: an eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Although published as a trilogy, the books tell a single, continuous story; they ...
Wise, Robert L
(1939- ) US evangelical minister and author of a "Christian horror" novel, Midnight (1993) who collaborated with Paul Meier on the second two volumes of the Millennium sequence [see Checklist below]. His solo sf-like novel, Wired (2004), like Millennium focuses on a Christian version of a post-Disaster world, in this case one that has been savagely depopulated and ...
Walton, Barbara E
(? - ) US author of a Shared World Tie to the Television series Quantum Leap, Quantum Leap: Odyssey (1995), whose storyline reflects the general bent of, but does not duplicate any episode in, the actual series. [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 ...