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Ennes, Hiron
(? - ) US musician and author whose first novel Leech (2022), set in the distant Near Future, in a fastness (see Zone) known as the Interprovincial Medical Institute, nerve centre for a kind of distributed Hive Mind comprised of the world's remaining medical doctors, whose/its primary mission is to protect Homo sapiens from the ...
Draulans, Dirk
(1956- ) Belgian biologist and author whose sf novel, De rode koningin: roman over de oorlog tussen man en vrouw (1994; trans Sam Garrett as The Red Queen: A Novel of the War Between the Sexes 1998), presents a Dystopian view of Genetic Engineering, as a ferocious woman (unusual among her ineffective, passive, technologically incompetent kind) hunts down the last fertile ...
Futuristic Stories
UK pulp-size magazine. Two undated issues, 1946, published by Hamilton & Co, Stafford; edited anonymously by Dennis H Pratt. Futuristic Stories was poor-quality, juvenile, and of little interest. As with its companion magazine, Strange Adventures, the entire contents were written by Norman Firth. [FHP] links / ...
Van Laun, Henry
(1859-1932) UK entrepreneur and author, whose given name was possibly Henri, but seemingly never used. Doubts have been expressed about whether or not The Gates of Afree, A D 1928: A Romance of the New Empire (1903) was actually released, though a copy is held by the National Library of Scotland with its author given as Henry Van Laun. The tale is a romantic Utopia set in Near Future Africa, laced through with a ...
Field, Marlo
(? -? ) US author of whom nothing is known beyond his (her?) Hollow Earth tale, Astro Bubbles (1928), based on Cyrus Reed Teed's hypothesis that we live within a hollow cylinder, rather as though we inhabited a Generation Starship or World Ship. Field's world is, in fact, far more complex than that, though his/her compulsive didacticism ( ...
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 ...