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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 ...
Causett, William
Author (? -? ), perhaps pseudonymous, of whom nothing is known beyond the appearance of this byline on the unremarkable Pirates in Space (1954 chap), #2 in the shortlived Fantastic Science Thriller pocketbook series. Causett has sometimes been identified as a pseudonym of the woman who wrote as Erroll Collins, but stylistic evidence suggests otherwise. [DRL/SH]
Latimer, John
(1937- ) Canadian author, mostly of Young Adult novels, whose The Last Pharaoh (1970) is a Lost Race tale set in Egypt, where a civilization untouched for thousands of years is discovered. Border of Darkness (1972) and Kelpie's Burn (1976) are fantasies. / He should not be confused with the author Jon Latimer (1964-2009). [JC]
Melcer, M V
(? - ) Polish-born author, in various countries from childhood, in UK from around 2013, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Ships Made of Guns" in Daily Science Fiction for September 2017. In her first novel, the Space Opera Refractions (2023), a female Starship captain, on a mission to save a colony planet (see ...
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
US animated tv series (2023-current). Cinema Gypsy Productions, Disney Television Animation (see Disney on Television), Marvel Animation. Based on the Marvel Comics characters created by Brandon Montclare, Amy Reeder and Natacha Bustos (Moon Girl) and Jack Kirby (Devil Dinosaur). Developed by Jeffrey M. Howard, Kate Kondell and Steve Loter. Directors include Trey Buongiorno and ...
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 ...