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Jackson, Steve [2]
(1953- ) US Game designer, author and entrepreneur, inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design Hall of Fame in 1982. Jackson (who should not be confused with the UK Steve Jackson) first worked in the games industry as a designer for Metagaming Concepts (MC), creating Melee (1977 MC) – a tactical Wargame of man-to-man combat which later became part ...
Lott, S Makepeace
Working name of UK author Stanley Makepeace-Lott (1920-1991), whose Escape to Venus (1956) is an Orwell-influenced Dystopian view of a Venus colony established sixty years after the outbreak of World War Three in 1980. [JE]
Ezell, Kacey
(1977- ) US pilot in the United States Air Force and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Citizens" as by Kacey Grannis in the Military SF anthology Citizens (anth 2010) edited by John Ringo and Brian M Thomsen. Her first novel Over the Night Horizon (2016) with Nico Murray is a tale of Vampires; ...
Robertson, Al
(? - ) UK musician and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Golden" in The Third Alternative for Spring 2004; his first novel Crashing Heaven (2015), which begins the Station series, is a Space Opera with Cyberpunk intonations, set in a period after Earth has been abandoned due to the behaviour of ...
Kahn, Herman
(1922-1983) American mathematician, political scientist and high-profile practitioner of Futures Studies. He worked 1947-1959 with the RAND (Research and Development) Corporation, and was subsequently director of the Hudson Institute, a body devoted to forecasting, and producing political, economic and military scenarios of the future. In his day Kahn was one of the most influential and best-known workers in this area, though many argued that the kind of ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...