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Edwards, Malcolm
(1949-2026) UK editor, critic and publisher, educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in anthropology. Active in UK sf Fandom in the 1970s and early 1980s, he published the first complete text of James Blish's "The Science in Science Fiction" (May 1951-May 1952 Science Fiction Quarterly) in his Fanzine Quicksilver #2 in 1971; edited the ...
Watson, Simon
(? - ) UK author of No Man's Land (1975), set in a Dystopian Near Future Britain based on a coercive concentration of the working class community-destructive high-rise tenements. Something similar had in fact happened in the real world during the twentieth century after World War Two, a process flagrantly contradictive of the pre-War English ...
Fitt, Matthew
(1968- ) Scottish author whose first novel, But n Ben A-Go-Go (2000), written apparently in a transcription of spoken Scots, depicts a submerged lowlands Scotland, a sexually transmitted disease worse than AIDS, Cyberpunk goings on, and AIs in space. [JC]
Taylor, Joelle
(1967- ) UK poet, playwright and author, active from the early 1990s, several of her early plays, like Naming (performed 1994 Oval House Theatre, London), gaining some reputation, without necessarily reaching publication, for their frontal confrontations with a range of connected issues (see Feminism, Sex). She began publishing poetry with Ska Tissue (coll 2011 chap); her fourth collection, ...
Oldest Profession, The
French/German anthology film (1967; original title Le Plus Vieux Métier du monde). Rialto Films, Films Gibs. First segment "L'Ère préhistorique" directed by Franco Indovina, written by Ennio Flaiano. Final segment "Anticipation" written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast includes Jacques Charrier, Anna Karina, Michèle Mercier, Enrico Mario Salerno, Gabriele Tinti and Marilù Tolo. 119 ...
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 ...