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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 ...
Pape, Richard
(1916-1995) UK author of various books including his bestselling wartime autobiography, Boldness Be My Friend (1953), and a number of thrillers. In And So Ends the World ... (1961), arrogant mankind is given a severe warning from high-up cosmic sources – the Moon disappears – and comes to its senses. The novel is more mysticism than sf. [JC]
Nussbaum, Abigail
(1981- ) Israeli programmer, blogger and critic, active in Fandom from 2005, beginning an ongoing critical blog, Asking the Wrong Questions, in that year; her reviews and criticism have also appeared in Strange Horizons, for which she served as reviews editor 2010-2014, and elsewhere. She won a 2017 Hugo award for best fan writer. A first impression ...
Tine, Robert
(1954- ) US author who has also written as by Richard Harding, and who is probably best known for the Outrider Survivalist sequence under this name, beginning with The Outrider (1984) and ending with The Outrider #5: Built to Kill (1985). As usual for this subgenre, the Holocaust is vengefully enjoyed. Works under his own name include ...
Spiritualised
UK band, formed by and in effect wholly comprising Jason Pierce (1965- ), who sometimes records under the alias "J. Spaceman". There is a floaty, dreamy quality to much Spiritualised music that is focused sometimes through Religion ("Walking With Jesus", "Angel Sigh", both tracks on 1993's album Fucked Up Inside) and sometimes via sf, or more specifically space travel. The band's third studio album ...
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 ...