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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author, active from around 1950, several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
Tsamaase, Tlotlo
(1989- ) Motswana author, who began publishing short fiction with "Eco-Humans" in The Fog Horn for March 2014, and made her first professional genre sale with "Murders Fell From Our Wombs" in Apex Magazine for April 2018. A string of excellent shorts quietly followed, in genre publications such as Clarkesworld, The Dark and Prisms (for PS Publishing see Peter ...
Bartlett, Frederick Orin
(1876-1945) US screenwriter and author of several adventure novels; The Web of the Golden Spider (1909) is a Lost Race tale which carries its romantically-involved protagonists from Boston to the Andes, where unguarded Incan treasures are soon discovered. [JC]
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Film (1967; vt Perry Rhodan – SOS aus dem Weltall; vt Alarm im Weltall; vt Órbita Mortal; vt Mission Stardust). Aitor Films. Directed by Primo Zeglio. Written by Federico De Urrutia, Sergio Donati, Karlheinz Scheer, Kurt Vogelmann, and Primo Zeglio, based on a story by Kurt Vogelmann that was based on the Perry Rhodan novels by K-H Scheer and Clark ...
Elliott, George
(? - ) UK author – possibly pseudonymous – of an sf thriller in the Martin Speed sequence, The Case of the Missing Airmen (1944 chap), featuring various villains and an assortment of deadly Rays. [JC]
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 ...