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Gill, Judy
(1942- ) Canadian author, almost all of whose books are nonfantastic romances under her full name, Judy Griffith Gill. Of sf interest is Whispers on the Wind (2001), a romantic Space Opera tale whose protagonist, member of a Alien Telepathic Pariah Elite trapped on Earth, must liaise with a human female in order to find his way back ...
Kyme, Nick
(? - ) UK editor and author, involved in Games journalism and other functions from 1998; his sf novels are Ties to Games Workshop Wargame universes, beginning with Necromunda: Back from the Dead (2006) and continuing with a Warhammer novel, Warhammer: Oathbreaker (2008), and several for the more heavily sf-oriented ...
White, Kiersten
(1983- ) US author most of whose work, generally couched for the Young Adult market, is fantasy, including the Paranormalcy sequence beginning with Paranormalcy (2010), whose young protagonist baulks at her role in the International Paranormal Containment Agency, but does continue to hunt for deities (see Gods and Demons) hiding in the interstices of the normal world [see Urban ...
Hayward, Dagney
Pseudonym of UK author John Dagney Major (1875-1937), under which name appeared The Secret of the Silent City!: A Magnificent Adventure Story (1920 The Magnet; 1921), an unpretentious Lost Race tale. An earlier sf tale, "Into the Unknown", was serialized in The Gem in 1916 under the byline Dagney Major. [JC/SH] see also: Boys' Friend Library; ...
TransVersions
Canadian Digest-size Small Press Semiprozine published by Island Speciality Reports, Victoria for the first eight issues, Autumn 1994 to Spring/Summer 1998, and then by Paper Orchid Press, Toronto. Edited by Dale L Sproule and Sally McBride through to issue #10 (Spring 1999) and then by Marcel Gagne and Sally Tomasevic. Issue #8/9 was a double issue, so that there were only ten ...
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 ...