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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 ...
Sanderson, Brandon
(1975- ) US author, of considerable significance for his Heroic Fantasies [for this term and for Robert Jordan see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below], coming to wide notice with his continuations of Jordan's Wheel of Time sequence and his own Mistborn sequence [neither listed below]. Of sf interest is the Young Adult Reckoners series beginning ...
Revolution Science Fiction
US Online Magazine which ran as a cumulative blog with news, reviews, commentary, articles and coverage of games, tv and films, plus occasional fiction. It was produced by Shane Ivey, with fiction editor Rick Klaw and ran from 21 September 2001 to 17 June 2013. / It usually ran a new story each week, starting with the first outing of "A Slow Saturday Night at the Surrealist Sporting Club" by Michael Moorcock, ahead ...
Jones, Arthur Gordon
(1870-? ) US author of Amazing Adventures of an Inventor: Being a Partial Account of the Life of Alfred Ingleson, Esq., the American Nonpareil (1908), an Edisonade told in episodic fashion. [JC]
Millership, Richard
(? - ) Australian author of Dagger Dark (1997), a Near Future tale set in the decayed New York of 2018, where an almost supernaturally powerful Drug known as Dagger strips its users of their civilized "human" veneer, turning them into mass murderers. [JC]
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 ...