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Haber, Karen
Working name of Karen Lee Haber Silverberg (1955- ), US author and anthologist, married to Robert Silverberg since 1987. She began publishing work of genre interest with "Madre de Dios" for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in May 1988, which was assembled with later stories as The Sweet Taste of Regret (coll 2014); she came to general notice with the Fire in Winter ...
Teflon, Zeke
Pseudonym of US author, translator, editor and publisher Chaz Bufe (? - ), publisher and chief editor at See Sharp Press since 1984; he also publishes nonfiction as Chaz Bufe. In his Near Future Satire Free Radicals: A Novel of Utopia and Dystopia (2012), the protagonist, framed on Earth for anti-social behaviour leading to terrorism, finds himself on a ...
McQueen, Ronald A
(? - ) UK author known only for several Space Operas written for Robert Hale Limited, beginning with The Cosmic Assassin (1980) [JC]
MacBride, Stuart B
(? - ) Scottish author, mostly of thrillers from 2005 as Stuart MacBride, and of an sf thriller, Halfhead (2009), set in a moderately distant Near Future Glasgow a decade after violent social upheavals, caused by excesses of Virtual Reality, have killed millions; in the Dystopian aftermath of this, criminals (see ...
Sher, Abby
(? - ) US actor, performer and author, who is of sf interest for Sanctuary (2020) with Paola Mendoza, a Near Future Young Adult tale set in the Dystopian America of 2040 [for further details see her collaborator]. [JC]
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 ...