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Williams, Tess
(1954-2025) UK-born teacher, editor and author, in Australia for many years, there receiving a degree in literature from Curtin University and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. She began publishing work of genre interest with "The Padwan Affair" in She's Fantastical (anth 1995) edited by Judith Raphael Buckrich and Lucy Sussex. Of sf interest are two novels: Map of Power (1996), set mostly in a ...
Nayak, Michael
(? - ) US test pilot and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Frykstadbanan" in Lost Voices (anth 2015) edited by Jamie Lackey. The Near Future Technothriller Ice Plague Wars sequence beginning with Symbiote (2025), set in Antarctica research station as World War Three ravages the planet as a ...
Chan, Grace
(? - ) Malaysian medical doctor and author, for some time resident in Australia, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Mark" in Verge 2019: Uncanny (anth 2019) edited by Stephen Downes, Calvin Fung and Amaryllis Gacioppo. In the Dystopian Near Future Melbourne of her first novel, Every Version of You (2022), a City ...
Crown, Peter J
(? - ) Author, perhaps pseudonymous, of the unremarkable, feebly erotic sf novel Father of the Amazons (1961), whose only edition gives Peter J Crown on the title page but "Pete Lewis" on the cover. In the twenty-seventh century a Starship crash-lands on an unexplored planet twenty light-years from Earth; the protagonist, sole survivor, is captured first by "Amazon" women (males are in short supply and mostly ...
Ness, Patrick
(1971- ) US author, in UK from 1999; though his work has mostly been designed for relatively mature Young Adult readers, two at least seem directed to the adult market. His first novel, The Crash of Hennington (2003), imports a herd of rhinos to an American seaside town, where they take up long-term residence, and strange events ensue (see Equipoise; ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...