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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author, active from around 1950, several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
Huang Fan
Pseudonym of Huang Xiaozhong (1950- ) a Chinese author whose occasional experiments in sf, Equipoise and the absurd have made him a distinct and distinguished voice in modern Taiwanese fiction. A former engineer and factory manager, he turned to writing full-time in the 1980s, except for a prolonged hiatus from 1993-2003 when he was secluded in a Buddhist monastery. He came to prominence with the non-sf ...
Shadowrun
Role Playing Game (1989). FASA. Designed by Bob Charrette, Tom Dowd, Paul Hume. / The setting for Shadowrun is a curious Science and Sorcery fusion of high Fantasy and Cyberpunk, an innovation which greatly appealed to many players but has resulted in adverse comments on its aesthetics from, amongst ...
Cooper, Iver P
(? - ) US intellectual property law attorney who began to publish work of genre interest with the essay "Drillers in Doublets" in Grantville Gazette for April 2005; like his subsequent fiction and genre-related nonfiction, this is Tied to the Assiti Shards: 1632 Shared World created by Eric Flint, in which a ...
Parrish, Robin
(1975- ) US journalist and author on Christian themes, whose Dominion sequence, comprising Relentless (2006), Fearless (2007) and Merciless (2008), is set in a Post-Holocaust America riven by world-threatening conflict between Good and Evil, the sources of this conflict being ancient, the outcome Eschatological. Offworld (2009) begins with ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...