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Mortimore, Jim
(1962- ) UK author who specializes in Ties, mostly for the Doctor Who universe, beginning with Doctor Who: The New Adventures: Lucifer Rising (1993) with Andy Lane, though he has also contributed to the Babylon 5 universe, beginning with Babylon 5 Book 4: Clark's Law (1996). Space Truckers (1997) which is standalone, ...
Strange Suspense Stories
US Comic (1954-1965). 58 issues. Charlton Comics. Artists include Jon D'Agostino, Steve Ditko, Dick Giordano, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio and Bill Molno. Script writers include Joe Gill and Carl Memling. 36 pages (except #37, a double issue). Usually 4-5 long strips per issue, plus 1-2 short strips (occasionally non-fiction) and a short text story. #75-#77 are dominated ...
Matsuo Yumi
(1960- ) Japanese author of sf and detective fiction, a graduate in English Literature from Ochanomizu Women's College, whose debut came with "Camera Eye" (April 1988 Shōsetsu Kisō Tengai, English title sic). Her first stories were published when she was still working as one of the low-ranking, decorative corporate secretaries known as OL ["Office Ladies"]. Much of her subsequent fiction has demonstrated a dynamic interest ...
Bierce, Ambrose
(1842-circa 1914) US journalist, poet and author of short stories and Satires, deeply affected by his four years in the American Civil War (he enlisted as a private in 1861, was breveted major for bravery, and was wounded twice). Like Bret Harte and Mark Twain, (who settled in London, as for shorter periods did Joaquin Miller and Twain), he soon went abroad, ...
Lorraine, Lilith
One of at least five pseudonyms of Mary Maude Wright (née Dunn) (1894-1967), US poet, editor, radio lecturer and author, who regularly published sf in the 1930s Pulp magazines. The Brain of the Planet (1929 chap), from Hugo Gernsback's Science Fiction Series, portrays a Feminist Utopia founded after a socialist ...
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 ...