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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 ...
Jentry Chau vs The Underworld
US animated online tv series (2024). Buji Productions, Lightbulb Farm Productions, Netflix Animation, Titmouse Inc and Trespassers Will Inc. Created by Echo Wu. Directors include Jackie Cole, Alexandria Kwan, Natalie Wetzig and Mari Yang. Writers include Jade Chang, Peter Chen, Brittany Jo Flores and Echo Wu. Voice cast include A J Beckles, Kenton Chen, Lori Tan Chinn, Greg Chun, Woosung Kim, Eleanor Lin, Lucy Liu, Cristina Milizia, Ali Wong, Bowen Yang and Jimmy O Yang. Thirteen ...
Drumm, D B
A House Name used on Dell Books' Post-Holocaust Traveler series of Survivalist Fiction, initiated by Ed Naha, with most of the novels being the work either of Naha or of John Shirley. [PN]
Gale, Oliver Marble
(1876-1943) US author of some sf interest for Carnack – The Life-Bringer: The Story of a Dawn Man Told by Himself (1928), an example of Prehistoric SF whose protagonist, a Prometheus figure, sometimes resembles Tarzan (see Edgar Rice Burroughs). In the end, his innovations are too much for the proto-humans who surround him, and he is driven into exile with his woman, in ...
Morris, Wright
(1910-1998) US photographer and author whose first books were "photo-texts" combining photos and fiction; in his later career he won the National Book Award twice, for The Field of Vision (1956) and Plains Song for Female Voices (1980). Of sf interest is The Fork River Space Project: A Novel (1977), in which something like the Near Future world, in the form of UFOs, interpenetrates a dreamlike ...
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 ...