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Anders, Lou
(1967- ) US editor, anthologist, journalist and author who began to publish fiction of sf interest with "Crowd Control" for Strange Pleasures 2 (anth 2003) edited by John Grant and Dave Hutchinson, though he is best-known as a prolific author of articles on media sf in various journals; The Making of Star Trek: First Contact (1996) is a useful making-the-movie book about the ...
Grzimek, Martin
(1950- ) German author whose sf novel, Die Beschattung (1989; trans Breon Mitchell as Shadowlife 1991), is set in a Near Future world where life has been radically undermined by an environmental cataclysm (see Ecology); the protagonist of the sparsely eloquent tale works in the Central Institute for Biographics, which is dedicated to sustaining something ...
Noy, John
(1892-1964) UK author, whose childhood paralytic illness kept him from service in World War One. Most of his tales are nautical/Airship thrillers for the Children's SF market, including at least three volumes in the Red Devil of the Air Force series beginning with Red Devil of the Air Force (1937), which feature Technologies impossible in the year ...
Itäranta, Emmi
(1976- ) Finnish journalist, scriptwriter and author, resident in England, who either translates into or writes the original manuscripts of her novels in English; her first novel, Teemestarin kirja ["The Book of the Master of Tea"] (2012; English version by author as Memory of Water 2014), is a Young Adult tale set in a Dystopian seemingly distant ...
Thomas D Clareson Award
Instituted in 1995 and named in honour of Thomas D Clareson, the Thomas D Clareson Award for Distinguished Service is presented by the Science Fiction Research Association for outstanding service activities, specified as the promotion of SF teaching and study, editing, reviewing, editorial writing, publishing, organizing meetings, mentoring, and leadership in SF/fantasy organizations. Though early ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...