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Littlefield, Sophie
(? - ) US author of several crime novels; some of her Young Adult books – like the Banished sequence comprising Banished (2010) and Unforsaken (2011) – are paranormal romances. Of sf interest is the complicatedly Equipoisal Aftertime sequence, comprising Aftertime (2011), Survivors (2011 ebook), Rebirth ...
Prugovečki, Eduard
(1937-2003) Romanian-born physicist and author, in Canada from 1965; of sf interest are his two Utopias, Memoirs of the Future (2001), which rather abstractly describes a good and a bad world to come, affirming throughout the value of science when applied correctly; and Dawn of the New Man (2002), set in a vaguely-described distant Near Future where the good and the less good are described in terms of an ...
Eerie Publications
Myron Fass of M F Enterprises (which see) enjoyed much greater Comics success with Eerie Publications, which issued black-and-white comics-format magazines, starting (like M F Enterprises) in 1966. These were anthology-type publications, mostly in the Horror genre, although all of them ran sf stories from time to time. The vast majority of material that appeared was ...
Object Collection
US experimental theatrical and musical company formed in New York in 2004 by writer and stage director Kara Feely, and musician and composer Travis Just. They have produced a number of unconventional operas and performance pieces, including the "Utopian Space-Opera" You Are Under Our Space Control (album 2019; multimedia theatrical premiere 2020). The bare bones of the story – humans leaving a depleted earth to ...
Ernst, Paul
(1899-1985) US author, mostly of short fiction for Pulp markets, sometimes under his own name and sometimes (once in Weird Tales) under the pseudonym Paul Frederick Stern; he should not be confused with either (Karl Friedrich) Paul Ernst (1866-1933), a German writer in various genres, or with Paul Ernst (1886-? ) who wrote 1930s detective novels. His first published story may have been "The Temple of Serpents" in ...
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 ...