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Jikiemi-Pearson, Esmie
(? - ) UK organizer of the pro-diversity Impact of Omission organization, and author whose first novel, The Principle of Moments (2024), is a very wide-ranging Space Opera set in venues openly evocative of earlier models, including the Star Wars franchise and the work of N K Jemisin. In the Galactic Empire which dominates the terrain, ...
Nathan, Robert
(1894-1985) US author who began publishing work with no fantastic interest as Richard Florance in The Smart Set from 1915, and responsible under his own name for forty-two novels beginning with Peter Kindred (1919). The Barly Fields (omni 1938) – which contains The Fiddler in Barly (1926), The Woodcutter's House (1927) – in which the phrase "little green man" (see Little Green Men) ...
Gojira [music]
French metal band formed in 1996, until 2001 under the name Godzilla (see Gojira), by guitarist and vocalist Joe Duplantier (1976- ), guitarist Christian Andreu (1976- ), bassist Jean-Michel Labadie (1974- ) and drummer Mario Duplantier (1981- ). The excellent From Mars to Sirius (2003) is a concept album following an exodus to space ...
Little Green Men
Jocular item of Terminology, seemingly derived from its use to describe fairies but more widely employed in sf to denote generic Aliens – most often from Mars, as widely popularized in 1940s and 1950s newspaper stories about UFOs. The titular phrase is repeated many times in the poem "The Little Green Man: A German Story" (1801) by Matthew Lewis [see The ...
Smith, Mitchell
(1935- ) US author who has also written Westerns as by Roy LeBeau; in his early career he was best-known for crime novels, of which Reprisal (1999) is of some interest, hinting at Horror in SF. Of sf interest is his later Snowfall sequence comprising Snowfall (2002), Kingdom River (2003) and Moonrise (2004), set in a ...
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 ...