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Anghelides, Peter
(1962- ) UK author who first began publishing Ties of genre interest with "Moving On" for Doctor Who: Decalog 3: Consequences: Ten Stories, Seven Doctors, One Chain of Events (anth 1996) edited by Justin Richards and Andy Lane, and who began publishing Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor Ties with Kursaal (1998). [JC]
Holmes, Bruce T
(1946- ) US singer/songwriter and author whose sf novel, Anvil of the Heart (1983; preface added 1984), presents with some poignance one of the potential nightmares attendant upon the successful Genetic Engineering of the human species: the slow death of the last pre-altered humans as their children confront (and incomprehensibly transform) a new world. [JC]
Trese
Philippine/Singapore/Malaysian/US animated online tv series (2021-current). Lex + Otis, Tiger Animation. Based on the Comic by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo. Directors include David Hartman and Jay Oliva. Written by Zig Marasigan, Mihk Vergara and Tanya Yuson. Voice cast includes Apollo Abraham, Eric Bauza, Simon dela Cruz, Matthew Yang King, Shay Mitchell, Griffin Puatu, Liza Soberano and Christian Verlarde. Six 25- to 34-minute episodes. / Following in ...
Mariner, David
Pseudonym of Scottish author David McLeod Smith (1920- ) under which name he wrote an unremarkable tale about Space Flight, international conspiracy and attempted assassination, A Shackleton Called Sheila (1970: vt Countdown 1000 1974) for Robert Hale Limited. [JC]
Harkaway, Nick
Pseudonym of UK author Nicholas Cornwell (1972- ), who has also written thrillers as by Aiden Truhen; his first novel, The Gone-Away World (2008), applies toxic gouaches of Equipoise to a Post-Holocaust tale set in a surrealized Alternate World, where resemblances to the "real" world can be seen as diversionary: x or y may differ from consensual reality, ...
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 ...