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Grisewood, R Norman
(1876-1923) UK-born author who emigrated to the USA in 1895 and was naturalized in 1921. He wrote two novels of sf interest. In Zarlah the Martian (1909), an instant Communications device allows an Identity Transfer between a Martian and Earthman, both of whom remain happy in their new bodies, though the Earthman – now long-lived, in an advanced society with Antigravity ...
TV Greats: Space Stars of Movies and TV
US letter-size Cinema/Television magazine printed on newsprint paper. Publisher: Sterling's Magazines Inc. No editor named. Four issues from 1978 to 1980. / This magazine's parent publication TV Greats, launched in October 1977, was devoted to general film and television. Recognizing that Fantasy and sf had again become seriously profitable, Sterling cashed in with four erratically published ...
Saunders, Jake
(1947- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Bidderfrost Dragon" for Coven in March 1970, but as a writer has been one of the less active members of a Texas grouping which included Howard Waldrop, his collaborator on the Near Future The Texas-Israeli War: 1999 (July-August 1973 Galaxy as "A Voice and Bitter Weeping"; much exp ...
Pamuk, Orhan
(1952- ) Turkish author, almost exclusively of nonfantastic works whose comprehensive and penetrating focus on the culture and history and politics of his native land have won him praise from the world at large, and oppressive threats from the powers that be. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007; and was persecuted, off and on, for referring to the Turkish genocide of its Armenian population in 1915. ...
Kitasei, Yume
(? - ) US management consultant for New York government and author, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Super" in Metaphorosis for October 2019. Her first novel, The Deep Sky (2023), is a Space Opera set primarily on a Generation Starship carrying an elite corps of humans (see Eugenics) away ...
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 ...