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Goodman, Alison
(1966- ) Australian author who began publishing work of genre interest with "One Last Zoom at the Buzz Bar" in The Patternmaker (anth 1994) edited by Lucy Sussex, and whose Young Adult sf novel, Singing the Dogstar Blues (1998), lightly sketches in the hard times inflicted upon a teenager by her Alien partner who engages in ...
Davids, Hollace
(1947- ) Author with Paul Davids of a set of Young Adult Star Wars Ties (see Star Wars) beginning with Star Wars #1: The Glove of Darth Vader (1992); they also wrote together a Graphic Novel, The Fires of Pele (graph 1986), which purports to contain a lost journal by Mark ...
Rechts, Albert
Pseudonym of Irish lawyer, journalist and author Charles Brett (1928-2005), who wrote architectural studies as C E B Brett; Handbook to a Hypothetical City (1986 chap) as Albert Rechts traces the contours through time of a City not dissimilar to those that appear in the works of Italo Calvino, with the lives depicted here in outline strongly evoking the elaborately staged lives of urban dwellers in many ...
Brenner, Mayer Alan
(1956- ) US software designer and author who began to publish work of genre interest with the four-volume Dance of the Gods sequence opening with Catastrophe's Spell (1989), a moderately entertaining Sword and Sorcery venture that is at least notionally set in a Post-Holocaust future [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under ...
Darnton, John
(1941- ) US journalist and author, during whose career with the New York Times from 1966 until his retirement in 2005 he earned several prizes for his foreign affairs reporting, including a 1982 Pulitzer Prize. His first three novels are sf; in Neanderthal (1996), a Lost Race of Telepathic Neanderthals, bifurcated into peaceful and warlike segments, is discovered in far Tajikistan, deep 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 ...