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Brooks, Kevin
(1959- ) UK author of Young Adult fiction, most of it nonfantastic, his best-known title being The Bunker Diary (2013), whose young protagonist is imprisoned in an Underground bunker; his torturer adds other prisoners, all of whom eventually die, including, at the very last, the young protagonist. The use of violence in this tale, and in several others, may seem surgical: but at the same time ...
Niven, Larry
Working name of US author Laurence van Cott Niven (1938- ). He was born in California, where he set many of his stories, and gained a BA in mathematics from Washburn University, Kansas. From his first publication, "The Coldest Place" for If in December 1964, he set his mark on the US sf field as a Hard SF writer of remarkable vigour and inventiveness, soon winning four short-fiction Hugos: for ...
Doc Weir Award
Award for services to Fandom, voted on and presented annually at the UK Eastercon since 1963 in memory of the then recently deceased fan Arthur Rose "Doc" Weir (1906-1961) and his activities. The award takes the form of a silver cup engraved with the names of past winners; all available space on the cup itself having been used, winners are now commemorated on silver plates attached to its storage box. The cup ...
Mayr, Suzette
(1967- ) Canadian academic and author whose third novel, Venous Hum (2004), is a gonzo Near Future Satire on Identity issues, Sex, Gender, suburbia and the conventions governing the kind of horror novel now described as Urban Fantasy (not the same category as the principal definition of the term in The ...
Goong
["Palace"] South Korean tv series (2006; vt Princess Hours; vt Princess, circa 2007). Eight Peaks, MBC. Directed by Hwan In-roe. Written by In Eun-ah. Cast includes Choi Bool-am, Yun Eun-hye, Kim Jeong-Hoon, Joo Ji-hun, Ju Ji-hun, Song Ji-hyo and Kang Nam-gil. 24 episodes. Colour. / In an Alternate History of Korea that finds the country retaining its monarchy into the twenty-first ...
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 ...