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Iceland

Iceland's literary history is littered with the fantastical and weird; J R R Tolkien and C S Lewis were influenced in their writing by Icelandic sagas, which had been translated by William Morris. But ventures into the general field of sf were rather rare until recently. The short story "Jólaförin árið 2000" ["Christmas journey in the year 2000"] (Christmas 1900 ...

Kline, Otis Adelbert

(1891-1946) US songwriter, author and literary agent, active in music before beginning to write popular fiction in several genres in the early 1920s. His first sale was the serialized "The Thing of a Thousand Shapes" (March-April 1923 Weird Tales) – beginning in the first issue of Weird Tales – and he wrote further work of genre interest for the The Argosy. With the exception of ...

Obreht, Téa

(1985-    ) Yugoslavia/Serbia-born author, in US from the age of twelve. Her birth name was Téa Bajraktarević; she took her grandfather's surname in 2006. Her first novel, The Tiger's Wife (2010), arguably replicating Obreht's closeness to her grandfather, is structured around the tales told a young doctor by her grandfather. These tales, featuring a man who does not die and a deaf-mute girl, dextrously interact with ...

Clark, Gideon

(circa 1888-1955) UK author of a Scientific Romance, Substitute for Living (1937), a Satire in which unwholesome consequences are generated through the Invention of a Time Viewer which shows moments from the past. [JC]

Kaster, Allan

(?   -    ) Prolific anthologist who began to publish works of genre interest in 2008, initially in audio CD and digital audio download format only [these titles are not listed below] but adding ebook versions from The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 (anth 2010 ebook), and later trade paperbacks. All titles are published by his own Small Press Infinivox. The ...

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 ...



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