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Sarrantonio, Al
(1952-2025) US editor and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Ahead of the Joneses" in Asimov's for March 1979. Much of his work was horror, sometimes tinged with sf (see Horror in SF), including his first novel, The Worms (1985), a Gothic tale set in Massachusetts with hints of H P Lovecraft; and the Equipoisal Moonbane ...
Harkaway, Nick
Pseudonym of UK author Nicholas Cornwell (1972- ) whose first novel, The Gone-Away World (2008), applies toxic gouaches of Equipoise to a Post-Holocaust tale set in a surrealized Alternate World, where resemblances to the "real" world can be seen as diversionary: x or y may differ from consensual reality, and the telling of the tale may dwell on these ...
Kupstas, Marcia
(1957- ) Brazilian teacher and author whose Young Adult É Preciso Lutar! ["It is Necessary to Fight"] (1988) delineates a world (see Politics) where injustice must be combatted. O demônio do computador ["The Computer Devil"] (coll of linked stories 1997) features what may be Virtual-Reality avatars of H P ...
Wind
Armenia animated film (1988; vt Veter). Armenfilm. Directed by Robert Sahakyants. Written by G Danielyan. 18 minutes. Colour. / As nuclear missiles launch (see World War Three), a junior officer at a military base inspects the passes of the arriving senior staff. Initially fairly normal, the staff become more unusual as time goes on – tailed, three-legged, four-legged, ...
Harris, Clare Winger
(1891-1968) US author, daughter of F S Winger. Though Francis Stevens had published widely in magazines like Argosy and as early as July 1923 in Weird Tales, Harris seems to have been the first woman to initiate her publishing career in the specialized 1920s sf Pulp magazines in America, beginning with "A Runaway World" for ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...