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De Veer, Willem
(1865-1932) Dutch author, doctor of law (University of Amsterdam) and colonial judge for the Dutch East India Company, latterly living in the UK. No Dutch version of his An Emperor in the Dock (1915), which is an Alternate History of World War One, has been found. [JC]
Dimaline, Cherie
(1975- ) Canadian author whose Métis background has shaped her work, much of it nonfantastic, though the Young Adult Marrow Thieves sequence beginning with The Marrow Thieves (2017) is sf. In a Near Future Dystopian world afflicted by Climate Change, where most humans have lost the ability to dream, the indigenous ...
Jensen, Van
(? - ) US editor, journalist, Comics scriptwriter and author, who may be best known for Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer (2009). He is more direct sf interest for his first novel, Godfall (2023), in which a huge Asteroid about to impact Earth turns out not to be an Alien Macrostructure but an actual three-mile-tall ...
Vinton, Arthur Dudley
(1852-1906) US lawyer and author whose Looking Further Backward: Being a Series of Lectures Delivered to the Freshman Class at Shawmut College by Professor Won Lung Li (Successor of Prof Julian West) [for full subtitle see Checklist] (coll 1890) works as a direct sequel to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888), demonstrating how the world of 2000 has been fatally feminized and vulnerable to Invasion; ...
Cole, Myke
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Shouting Down the Moon" in The Book of Final Flesh (anth 2003) edited by James Lowder, which appeared more or less simultaneously with his first novel, Car Trouble (2003), a Tie to the Wildsidhe Chronicles Shared World fantasy sequence. He is of sf interest for the ...
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 ...