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Sinykin, Sheri Cooper
(1950- ) US author of fantasies for the Young Adult market (not listed below), among which is a tale of sf interest, A Matter of Time (1998), whose young protagonist is transported by Time Machine back to her grandparents' era, where she discovers that they are real folk like her. Her new-found family values persist after she returns to the present. [JC]
Tyssot de Patot, Simon
(1655-1738) UK-born French teacher and author who lived most of his life in The Netherlands, at least initially to escape persecution, his family being Huguenots. His career as an author of Proto SF Fantastic Voyages began late in his life, with the publication of Voyages et Avantures de Jaques Massé ["Voyages and Adventures of Jacques Massé"] (dated 1710 but circa 1714; trans Stephen Whatley ...
Müller-Holm, Ernst
(1861-1927) Swedish-born author, in Germany from an early age, whose Ein Rückblick aus dem Jahre 2037 auf das Jahr 2000: Aus den Erinnerungen des Herrn Julian West (1891; trans anon as My Afterdream: A Sequel to the Late Mr. Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward 1900) as by Julian West is a stridently negative response to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888), which is depicted as a whitewash over socialist ...
Grabien, Deborah
(1954- ) US author. Her first novel, Woman of Fire (1988; vt Eyes in the Fire 1989), is fantasy. Her second novel is an historical romance with fantasy elements, the first of several (not listed below) that she has concentrated upon since the 1990s; they take their inspiration from folk ballads. Her third novel, the Post-Holocaust Plainsong (1990), is an unsentimental ...
Sheehan, Jason
(? - ) US journalist and author, known for nonfiction on cooking, including Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen (2009). His first novel, A Private Little War (2013), is sf, a Space Opera set on a planet ripe for human exploitation (see Colonization of Other Worlds), though the indigenous culture must be fractured in ...
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 ...