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Auster, Paul
(1947-2024) US translator, screenwriter and author, active from around 1970, who came to sudden attention – after years of unrecognized work, culminating in an undemanding Baseball mystery, Squeeze Play (1984) as by Paul Benjamin – with a series of Fabulations playing on detective genres and the French nouveau roman. City of Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986) and ...
Universal Translator
Automated language translation is a highly convenient plot device for sf stories, facilitating Communication with Aliens without miring the action in realistic examination of Linguistic issues. An early example is the Language Rectifier facility of the Telephot videophone in Hugo Gernsback's Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660 (April 1911-March 1912 ...
Renner, James
(1978- ) US film producer, journalist and author most of whose nonfiction work has focused on unsolved murders, a pattern entered into in his first novel, The Man from Primrose Lane (2012), whose protagonist's investigation into a long-ago murder implicates his own dead wife, and generates a disturbing climax in which a Near Future Dystopian America, and perhaps other worlds, are juxtaposed with ...
Lovelace, Delos W
(1894-1967) US author whose King Kong: Conceived by Edgar Wallace and Merian C Cooper: Novelization by Delos W Lovelace (1932), which novelizes the original King Kong (1933), is one of the first American film Ties of genuine sf interest. The later magazine serialization King Kong (February-March 1933 Mystery) was, however, bylined Edgar Wallace. [JC/DRL] see also: ...
Dorsey, Candas Jane
(1952- ) Canadian author, arts journalist and social worker, author of three early volumes of poetry; married to Timothy J Anderson. Dorsey began publishing work of genre interest with "Columbus Hits the Shoreline Rag" (in Getting Here, anth 1977, ed Rudy Weibe); her terse, complex stories, assembled primarily in Machine Sex ... And Other Stories (coll 1988), Vanilla and Other Stories (2000) ...
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 ...