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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Two People Exchanging Saliva
French film (2024; original title Deux personnes échangeant de la salive). Misia Films, Preromanbritain, Galeries Lafeyette. Written and directed by Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh. Cast includes Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Luàna Bajrami and Aurélie Boquien. 36 minutes. Black and white. / In an unspecified Dystopia which looks like contemporary Paris, kissing is a crime punishable by death, ...
Fergusson, Adam
(1932- ) UK politician, journalist and author, Conservative member of Parliament 1979-1984, a strong supporter of Britain's membership in the EEC. Of his nonfiction, he is best known for When Money Dies (1975), narrative description of the effect of hyperinflation on the 1920s Weimar Republic. His first novel, Roman Go Home (1969), is a mildly fantasticated Satire on the Roman Empire's abandonment of Britain in the ...
Clifford, Sarah
(1916-1976) Polish-born author in US from 1936 or earlier (naturalized 1943); author of the routine sf novel, Adam and His Women (1972) (see Adam and Eve). [JC]
Steelbaugh, Larry
(? - ) US author of the Tankwar sequence beginning with Tankwar (1990) and ending with Tankwar: Desert Prey (1993), a series of Military SF tales set during World War Three, with a Technothriller focus on tank Technology. Nothing is known of Steelbaugh; the name may be a pseudonym. ...
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 ...