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Mann, George
(1978- ) UK editor and author whose The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2001) was an ambitious one-person attempt to cover the field (see Bibliographies), though at less than 700 pages its coverage was necessarily constrained (the term Mammoth in the title was imposed by the publishers to echo their numerous The Mammoth Book of ... anthologies edited by Mike Ashley and ...
Equipoise
1. In this encyclopedia Equipoise designates the active and conscious mixing or two or more genres within a single narrative, usually within a single narrative event rather than sequentially, in order to provide a multifaceted narrative take on action, character, motif, setting. The primary effect is sometimes aesthetic pleasure. But perhaps more interestingly, an Equipoisal narrative may reveal a world richer and ultimately more graspable than a world envisioned through a single lens. ...
Ma, Ling
(1983- ) Chinese-born academic and author, in US from childhood, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Yeti Lovemaking" in Unstuck #2 for 2012, which was published with other variously surreal gonzo Satires as Bliss Montage (coll 2022); its description of lovemaking with a yeti dressed as a human male (see Apes as Human) is chasteningly sharp; "bliss montage" is a term in film ...
Joron, Andrew
(1955- ) US poet, translator and author, much of whose work is coloured by – or directly engages in – sf, and who began to publish Poetry of specifically genre interest with "The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes" for New Worlds #216, September 1979. Titles of interest include A Measure of Calm (1985 chap) with Robert Frazier, Force Fields (coll ...
Cook, Michele
(? - ) US journalist, screenwriter and author who in collaboration with her husband (since 2013) John Sandford wrote the Near Future Young Adult Singular Menace trilogy opening with Uncaged (2014), in which young animal-rights activists attempt to free experimental animals from a research laboratory and find themselves entangled with ...
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 ...