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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 ...
Grant, Robert
(1852-1940) US judge and author chiefly remembered for Unleavened Bread (1900). With John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890), an Irish writer who escaped Australian exile to live in the USA, J S of Dale (a pseudonym of US lawyer and diplomat Frederic Jesup Stimson) and J T Wheelwright (1856-1925), also a New England lawyer, Grant wrote The King's Men: A Tale of To-morrow (1884), set in a republican UK ...
Percival, Dr
Pseudonym or working name of C Percival (? -? ), author of The Flaming Sword: Being an Account of the Extraordinary Adventures and Discoveries of Dr Percival in the Wilds of Africa, Written by Himself (1894), a Lost World tale in which the narrator, who is not quick witted, discovers and combats mammoths and other creatures typical of Prehistoric SF, working out finally that he ...
Chaikovsky, Mykola
(1887-1970) Ukrainian teacher, mathematician and author of Fantastika who in 1918 he wrote one of the first works of Ukrainian sf, Za syly sontsia ["By the Power of the Sun"] (written 1918; 1925). Its hero is Mykhailo Rozdvyanskyi, a brilliant engineer-physicist (see Scientists), inventor (see Invention) and aeronaut (professor of Kyiv Engineering Academy and ...
Bed-Sitting Room, The
Film (1969). Oscar Lewenstein/United Artists. Director Richard Lester. Cast includes Peter Cook, Michael Hordern, Roy Kinnear, Arthur Lowe, Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore, Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham and Mona Washbourne. Written by John Antrobus from the play by Antrobus and Milligan. 91 minutes. Colour. / The Bed-sitting Room is a Fabulation, a ...
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 ...