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Williams, Tess
(1954-2025) UK-born teacher, editor and author, in Australia for many years, there receiving a degree in literature from Curtin University and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Padwan Affair" in She's Fantastical (anth 1995) edited by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex. Of sf interest are two novels: Map of Power (1996), set mostly in a ...
Jones, D J
(1940- ) US author whose Souls of the Universe (coll 1989) contains twenty-three stories and poems (see Poetry), some sf and some fantasy, all original to this volume, and most dealing with issues of Cosmology. [JC]
Mendoza, Paola
(? - ) Colombian actor, director, screenwriter and author, in USA from childhood, variously active from around 2000, much of her work as an activist being reflected in her first novel, Sanctuary (2020) with Abby Sher, a Near Future Young Adult tale set in a Dystopian America some time after a president of the country, ...
Mills, J M A
(1894-1986) UK author of two novels of the occult, The Tomb of the Dark Ones (1937) and Lords of the Earth (1940), the second being of some sf interest for its sourcing of ancient knowledge and the secret of Immortality in Atlantis. [JC]
Edge of Darkness
1. UK television miniseries (1985). BBC TV, Lionheart Television International. Produced by Michael Wearing, directed by Martin Campbell. Written by Troy Kennedy Martin. Cast includes Joe Don Baker, Hugh Fraser, Charles Kay, Ian McNeice, Kenneth Nelson, Bob Peck, Zoë Wanamaker, Jack Watson, Joanne Whalley, John Woodvine. Music by Eric Clapton and Michael Kamen. Six 50-minute episodes. Colour. / This miniseries is among the best ...
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 ...