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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Campion, Sarah
Pseudonym of UK-born teacher, journalist and author Mary Rose Coulton (1906-2002), author of Father: A Portrait of G G Coulton (1948), an impressive biography of her father George Gordon Coulton, the important scholar who also wrote Friar's Lantern (1906), a Timeslip tale. Her fourth novel, Thirty Million Gas Masks (1936), is a Near Future ...
Alderman, Naomi
(1974- ) UK author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Career of Edward Northam" in New Writings in the Fantastic (anth 2007) edited by John Grant. Later she designed and wrote for the Alternate Reality Game Zombies, Run! (see also Zombies), later collaborating with her 2012 Rolex Mentor Margaret ...
Korea
After 1945, the history of Korean Science Fiction unfolds across two states with contrasting ideological frameworks: North Korea, where sf was shaped by revolutionary didacticism and the Juche ("self-reliance") state ideology; and South Korea, where the genre emerged in fits and starts, often reflecting the nation's rapid industrialization, eventual democratization, and ambivalent embrace of ...
McKay, Herbert
(1881-? ) UK author of much nonfiction, and of A Camouflage Revolution (1929), in which the threat of a clandestine communist takeover of Great Britain is set in the Near Future. [JC]
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 ...