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Hanks, Keith
(1940- ) UK illustrator and author of a Science Fantasy novel, Falk (1972), set in a Post-Holocaust Britain so disgustingly decadent that God has sent the protagonist, all-unknowing of the honour, to clean things up. [JC]
Logic
Recording name of US rapper and streamer Robert Bryson Hall II (1990- ), whose The Incredible True Story (2015) is an sf concept album, unusual in mainstream rather than underground hip-hop. The framing story has a Spaceship heading to the planet Paradise, escaping Earth after failed attempts to create a super-nation to combat Climate Change led to Wars involving the ...
Cool, Tom
(1954- ) US computer technician for the American Navy and, after his retirement, author of three action-oriented sf novels. In Infectress (1997), a terrorist engineers a virus (see Medicine) designed to return Earth to an idyllic pre-civilized state, and makes use of a stolen AI and nanoware (see Nanotechnology) to further this goal; Secret Realms (1998), ...
Williamson, Neil
(1968- ) Scottish editor and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Angelique's Lament" in Territories: The Slipstream Journal for 1993. Much of his earlier short fiction has been assembled as The Ephemera (coll 2006), most of this work comprising what might be called Fantastika rather than fantasy, as a constant transgressing of traditional genre boundaries is evident throughout. At least two of the ...
Dissevelt, Tom
(1921-1989) Dutch instrumentalist and composer, working on the borderlands between electronic, jazz and pop. His early releases were moderately ground-breaking in terms of the sonic palette he created from often home-built electronic instruments. His debut album Song of the Second Moon (1957) which contained the remarkable "Sonik Re-entry", a genuinely extraordinary piece of music half a century ahead of its time. His biggest success came with Fantasy in Orbit ...
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 ...