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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 ...
Thomas, Rhys
(? - ) Welsh author whose sf novel, On the Third Day (2010), is set in the aftermath of a Disaster, the rapid spread of a virus-based Pandemic that causes either incurable depression or savage violence, ending in death after three days. The story follows the immune survivors of a devastated family group to the south coast of England, where their attempts to establish a protective ...
Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
Tv documentary film (1993). Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education. Directed by Rob Mikuriya. Written by Stephen R Heard, Rob Mikuriya, Roger Scott Olsen, and Willie Reale. Cast includes Cathy Bates, Christine Cousins, Joseph Cousins, Raymond Cruz, Jaime Escalante, Rodney A Grant, Jackée Harry, Esai Morales, Pat Morita, Vincent Schiavelli, James Stephens III, Jeffrey Tamblor, Billy Bob Thornton, Sheila Tousey, Jesse Ventura and "Weird Al" Yankovic. 58 minutes. ...
Kidd, Tom
(1955- ) US illustrator who has published also as Thomas Kidd, Newell Convers (a tribute to N C Wyeth, whose first two names these are) and Gnemo, the latter pseudonym acknowledging his fascination with the work of Winsor McCay. His cover illustrations are usually done in oils; the other media he uses in published work include watercolours and pencil. / Born in Tampa, Florida, Kidd decided at a fairly early age that he wanted to be a ...
Carter, Tremlett
(1866-1903) Indian-born author, in the UK from childhood, whose works include at least one technical study of electrical machinery, and The People of the Moon (1895), an sf novel containing a narrative of life inside the hollow Moon that has been conveyed by Antigravity device to a man on Earth. Within the Moon may be found Monsters galore, Airships, ...
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 ...