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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Dulac, Odette
Pseudonym of French opera singer, songwriter, sculptor and author Jeanne Latrilhe (1865-1939); in the first capacity, she starred most frequently in French operettas, as well as maintaining a cabaret career, until 1904. Active as an author of fiction and nonfiction from before World War One, she published one tale of sf interest, Tel qui l'est! (1926; trans Brian Stableford as The War of the Sexes 2015), in which explorations ...
Heydron, Vicki Ann
(1945- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Keepersmith" for Asimov's in 1979 with Randall Garrett, who was her husband. Most of her work, such as the Gandalara Cycle beginning with The Steel of Raithskar (1981) with Garrett and ending with The River Wall (1986) with Garrett, was billed as written in collaboration with him but owing to his failing ability to work after ...
Lloyd, Saci
(1967- ) UK cartoonist, singer and author. She is of sf interest for The Carbon Diaries sequence beginning with The Carbon Diaries 2015 (2008); couched in a Young Adult frame, it is shaped as the diary of a teenager/young woman written in a Near Future London where, due to violent weather Disasters, ...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Film (1991). Lightstorm/Carolco/Tri-Star. Produced, directed and written by James Cameron. Executive producers Mario Kassar, Gale Anne Hurd. Cast includes Edward Furlong, Linda Hamilton, Joe Morton, Robert Patrick and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Written by Cameron, William Wisher. 135 minutes. Colour. / A decade after The Terminator (1984), two more Terminators ...
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 ...