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Rose, F Horace
(1875-1965) South African editor, screenwriter for silent films and author, a periodic UK resident, whose The Night of the World (1944), centres on a Timeslip in a Lost World oasis peopled by figures from other ages, the whole being haunted by the course of World War Two. His Scientific Romance The Maniac's Dream: A Novel of the Atomic Bomb ...
Lindsey, Johanna
(1952-2019) German-born US author of romance novels, mostly with historical settings, which regularly appeared on the New York Times bestseller list; the first was Captive Bride (1977) [not listed below]. Lindsey is of sf interest for the Ly-San-Ter trilogy opening with Warrior's Woman (1990), whose tough yet virginal female protagonist goes on an interstellar quest (with a wisecracking AI sidekick) to free her world's women from ...
Casper, Susan
(1947-2017) US editor and author, married to Gardner Dozois until her death. She began publishing sf with "Spring-Fingered Jack" for Fears (anth 1983) edited by Charles Grant. Her fiction in collaboration with Dozois is assembled in Slow Dancing through Time (coll 1990), which includes one collaboration with both Dozois and Jack M Dann. These stories are also ...
Moon, Cynthia Charlotte
(1828-1895) US actor, journalist and author, who also wrote as by C M C and as by Charles M Clay, using her married name, Charlotte Moon Clark, for some work; she was also known as Lottie Moon, and is probably most widely remembered as a Confederate spy in the American Civil War, along with her sister Virginia "Ginnie" Moon (1844-1925). Her post-war life as a journalist included a stint as foreign correspondent, during which she covered the Franco-Prussian war (1870). She is of sf interest for ...
Hughes, Rhys
(1966- ) Welsh author of a very large number of stories to date, his stated life's ambition being to create an interlocking sequence of 1000 tales, the whole to comprise a sequence now called Pandora's Bluff. In 2022 he announced completion of this project, with some stories yet to be published. The Dabbler in Drabbles sequence, beginning with Dabbler in Drabbles: Volume One (coll 2024), is planned to contain 1,000 drabbles (stories strictly ...
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 ...