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Longyear, Barry B
(1942-2025) US author and editor who ran a printing company with his wife before beginning to write in 1977, beginning to publish work of genre interest with "The Tryouts" in Asimov's for November/December 1978. Before his 1981 hospitalization for alcoholism and addiction to prescription drugs – an experience which formed the basis of his non-sf novel Saint Mary Blue (1988) – he had already published prolifically, sometimes as by Frederick ...
Aoki, Ryka
(? - ) US musician, academic, poet and author, much of whose career has focused on the promotion of transgender artists (see Gender), active from before 2010; she began to publish work of genre interest with "The Gift" in Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers (anth 2017) edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett. Aoki is of sf interest for her third novel, ...
MacFadyen, Virginia
(1900-1966) US actress and author whose At the Sign of the Sun (1925) is a Lost Race tale whose inhabitants whose lineage is antediluvian. [JC]
Renaissance
Film (2006; vt Paris 2054: Renaissance). Miramax Films presents an Onyx Films and Millimages production in association with France 2 Cinéma, Luxanimation and Timefirm Limited with the participation of Allied Filmmakers, Centre National de la Cinématographie, Film Fund Luxembourg, MEDIA Plus, ON Animation Studios and Région Ile-de-France. Directed by Christian Volckman. Written by Mathieu Delaporte, Alexandre de la Patellière, Jean-Bernard Pouy and ...
Taylor, Jeri
(1938-2024) US Television scriptwriter, producer, showrunner and author best known as a significant contributor to the Star Trek universe, most notably for Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) and Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001) series; she also wrote some episodes of ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...