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Conway, Gerard F
(1952-2026) US author informally known as Gerry Conway who began his career in Comics, writing some non-fantastic scripts for Marvel Comics, and editing the short-lived 1973 weird fiction magazine The Haunt of Horror and writing for the 1973-1975 anthology Comic Worlds Unknown. He also worked extensively for ...
Starling, Caitlin
(? - ) US interactive game designer and author who is of sf interest for her first novel, The Luminous Dead (2019), is set mostly Underground on a planet exploited primarily for its mineral deposits (see Colonization of Other Worlds); the protagonist, contracted to explore yet unknown cave systems for further resources, finds herself caught between the chthonic ...
Butler, William
(1929- ) US author best known for nonfantastic novels, some set in Japan. The Butterfly Revolution (1961), which is of sf interest, describes the almost instantaneous Dystopian tyranny created when a group of children "trapped" in a holiday camp take it over, a Satirical vision of an unhinged America which climaxes in the savage lynching of a Black camper (see ...
Holloway, Brian
(? - ) UK author of whom nothing is known beyond the fact that he wrote sf novels under a number of Curtis Warren House Names, almost all of them Space Operas, those few with Terran venues generally featuring Alien threats to civilization: Destination Alpha (1952) as Berl Cameron, ...
Brouwer, Sigmund
(1959- ) Canadian author, mostly of nonfantastic work for Young Adult readers, and of detective fiction, active from around 1985, much of this work being couched to advocate Christian programs for the world. His sf titles, many of which explain issues of science in terms of Religious doctrine, are also numerous, beginning with his first novel, Double Helix (1959), ...
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 ...