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Engelhardt, Frederick
(? - ) Author whose first published story was the serialized novella "General Swamp, C.I.C." (August-September 1939 Astounding), a routine adventure in which human colonies on Venus (see Colonization of Other Worlds) rebel against Earth. Ten further stories, not all sf, appeared in various Pulp magazines including The ...
Afsharirad, David
(? - ) US short story writer, editor and anthologist whose first genre story was "Model Home" in Space and Time for Summer 2011. From 2015 to 2019 he edited the Year's Best Military SF series beginning with The Year's Best Military SF & Space Opera (anth 2015) [for further titles see Checklist below]. [RR] /
McManus, L
Working name of Irish author Charlotte Elizabeth McManus (circa 1853-1944), an historian and nationalist whose learning and convictions were normally expressed through the historical romance. In her one sf novel, The Professor in Erin (publication date unknown Sinn Féin; 1918), a German professor exploring Irish ruins knocks his head and finds himself in an Alternate World, where an Irish Utopia ...
King, Kielen
(? - ) US musician and author whose first work of sf interest, Star Pilot's Prelude (2016 ebook), is a short story set in a Videogame. He is of perhaps greater interest for the Silentium series of Space Operas beginning with Broken Hourglass (2024 chap) whose protagonist, born and raised on a sectarian planet (see ...
Hypnerotomachia
Russian short silent animated film (1992; vt Hypnerotomahia). Pilot Moscow Animation Studio. Directed by Andrei Svislotsky. Written by Andrei Kolpin and Oleg Kuzovkov. 8 minutes. Colour. / A man, desiccated in appearance with too many teeth and eyes like scars, dreams of dawn unfurling across a landscape covered in towers. His face in profile, its eye opens, revealing the iris to be the sun casting the light. The towers' shadows move with the sun's ...
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 ...