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Krasznahorkai, László
(1954- ) Hungarian author whose first novel to come to international attention, Sátántangó ["Satan's Tango"] (1985; trans George Szirtes as Satantango 2012), is placed in an isolated, apocalyptically claustrophobic collective farm; the narrative, disjunctively evocative of the works of Franz Kafka, conveys a sense of profound ...
Jamnia, Naseem
(? - ) US neuroscientist and author, who designate themselves as Persian-Chicagoan, active from 2015 or earlier. They began publishing work of genre interest with "Nothing Less Than Bones" in Pride: Quarterly Magazine for early 2020, which in expanded form became their first novel, The Bruising of Qilwa (2022). The tale cannot safely be described as sf, though in common with many texts published in the twenty-first century sf elements ...
Hardy, Jason M
(? - ) US author of some Ties connected to the Battletech Wargame, beginning with MechWarrior: Dark Age: The Scorpion Jar (2004); he has also contributed Shadowrun: Drops of Corruption (2006) to the Shadowrun world. [JC]
Roberts, Steve
(? - ) US author of Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (1985), a Tie to the film Max Headroom (1985). [JC]
Miller, Walter M, Jr
(1923-1996) US author who before beginning to publish served in World War Two as a pilot, flying combat missions; in 1947 he converted to Catholicism. Miller began publishing work of genre interest with "Secret of the Death Dome" in Amazing for January 1951, and over the ten years of his active writing career released about forty more tales, many of which had a deep impact upon the field. During the 1950s, a time when US sf tended ...
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 ...