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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 ...
Gaida, Davida
(? - ) US author of 2084 (1983), a Dystopia set in southern California, where Genetic Engineering has been used to prevent the birth of women; those few who survive are either whores or slaves. The contemporary microbiologist whose research led inadvertently to this world arrives by Time Travel in the midst of ...
Keeler, Harry Stephen
(1890-1967) US electrical engineer, editor and author of more than 70 crime-and-detection thrillers whose bizarre complexity – the "webwork novel", in his own phrase – irrelevant stories-within-stories and reliance on a multiplicity of staggering coincidences led to his being cherished by fans for other than literary reasons, rather as R Lionel Fanthorpe is enjoyed for his unashamed padding. Keeler's situations often verge on the science-fictional, ...
Megazone 23
Japanese Original Video Animation (1985-1986; vt Omega Zone 23; vt Megazone Two-Three). Artland, Artmic. Created by Noboru Ishiguro. Directed by Noboru Ishiguro (part one) and Ichiro Itano (part two). Written by Hiroyuki Hoshiyama. Voice cast include Maria Kawamura, Masato Kubota, Kumi Miyasato, Kaneto Shiozawa, Mina Tominaga and Kazuki Yao. Two 80 minute episodes, the first titled Megazone 23, the second ...
Antieau, Kim
(1955- ) US author who began publishing fiction of genre interest with "Out of the Womb" in Asimov's for July 1983; her work brings together Feminist and Ecological concerns in tales, set generally in the American West, which themselves weave together fantasy and sf procedures (see Equipoise). The effect is heightened, sometimes over-emotional, politically ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...