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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Brennan, Marie
Pseudonym of US author Bryn Neuenschwander (? - ), who began to write work of genre interest with "Calling into Silence" as Neuenschwander, which won the 2002 Asimov's Undergraduate Award, given by Asimov's in conjunction with the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. Most of her subsequent work has been fantasy, beginning with the Doppelganger sequence beginning with Doppelganger (2006; ...
Eça de Queiróz
(1845-1900) Portuguese author, surname also given as Queirós, who normally signed his publications with surname only; most famous for the realist novels which dominated his career and established his reputation as a central literary figure in nineteenth-century Europe. His relatively infrequent works that may be described in terms of Fantastika include O Mandarim (1880 Diário de Portugal; exp 1880; ...
Cordasco, Rachel S
(1982- ) US independent scholar and translator focusing on SF in Translation (henceforth SFT). Cordasco earned a PhD in Literary Studies in 2010; after working as a lecturer and then editor for several years, she transitioned into independent writing, first reviewing SFT for John DeNardo's SF Signal. In May 2016, Cordasco launched SFinTranslation.com, a site dedicated to cataloguing and promoting ...
Dimension 5
Film (1966; vt Dimension Four US). United Pictures and Harold Goldman Associates. Directed by Franklin Adreon. Written by Arthur C Pierce. Cast includes Jeffrey Hunter, France Nuyen, Harold Sakata and Donald Woods. 92 minutes, cut to 88 minutes. Colour. / Adreon and Pierce were the team that made Cyborg 2087 (also 1966). This equally cheap production has Sakata, who played the villain Oddjob in the James Bond movie ...
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 ...