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Rosson, Keith
(1976- ) US graphic designer, illustrator and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Droppers" in Murky Depths for December 2010. His first collection, Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons (coll 2021), won a Shirley Jackson Award (see Awards); most explore supernatural strategies from the contemporary Fantastika toolkit. Like almost all his fiction, The Mercy of the Tide ...
Holm, Anne
(1922-1998) Danish author who began her publishing career as early as 1943, writing as Anelise Jørgensen (a form of her maiden name), and who came to wide attention with David (1963; trans L W Kingsland as North to Freedom 1965; vt I Am David 1965), filmed as North to Freedom (2003), which depicts the escape of its young protagonist from a concentration camp in an unnamed country, and his subsequent hegira, in terms so heightened ...
Calderon, George
(1868-1915) UK playwright, linguistic scholar, translator and author perhaps best known for his advocacy of the plays of Anton Chekhov, many of which he translated; he died on active service in World War One, aged 46. The Adventures of Downy V Green, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1902) is a Fantasy of Manners [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. The "Missing Link" ...
Minor, John W
Pseudonym of US author George Lynde Catlin (1840-1896), who specialized in nonfiction, much of it devoted to various railways and railroads. "Bietigheim" (1886) as by John W Minor is a Future War tale set in 1890-1891 between the US and her allies and Germany and hers. Germany loses, and by 1910 republics – on the model of the United States of America – have replaced the old monarchies throughout Europe (see ...
Robertson, Tim
(1944- ) UK-born Australian actor and screenwriter whose Mary Shelley: (A Smoked Opera for the Quick and the Dead) (1983) is a script of sf interest (see Mary Shelley). [JC]
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 ...