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Busse, Morgan L
(? - ) US author whose fantasies, which she identifies as Christian (see Religion), begin with the Follower of the World sequence; the first volume Daughter of Light (2012) [her fantasy series are not listed below] typically features a young woman summoned to submit her Psi Powers to bring her folk to the eponymous Light. Busse is of greater sf interest for two series. In ...
Haigh, Richard
(1924-1991) UK civil servant and author not to be confused with the Richard Haigh pseudonym used by Laurence James (whom see) for his two Pigs horror novels. Richard Douglas Haigh – his full name – wrote one unremarkable Space Opera for Robert Hale Limited, The Golden Astronauts (1980). [JC]
Rue Morgue
Canadian letter-size saddle-stapled Media Magazine printed on newsprint. Publisher: Rodrigo Gudino as Marrs Media Incorporated. Editor-in-Chief: David Alexander. 1996-current. Publication was monthly to January 2005 and eleven times per year thereafter. / Subtitled "The Magazine of Horror in Culture and Entertainment", Rue Morgue now rivals Fangoria in popularity, being distributed throughout the world. Though focusing primarily on ...
Krauzer, Steven M
(1948- ) US author who wrote some Ties in the nonfantastic Executioner/Marc Bolan sequence as well as some Westerns, and who is of sf interest for Brainstorm (1991), a Young Adult tale featuring an eleven-year old boy with Psi Powers who must escape an inimical government agency. [JC]
Kwan, Susanna
(? – ) US author whose first novel, the Near-Future Awake in the Floating City (2025), is partly sent in a flooded, Climate-Change-ridden San Francisco (see California), as seen primarily through a narrative emphasizing, without melodramatics, the art of surviving humanely in the new circumstances of the world. / Susanna Kwan ...
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 ...