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MicroCon
Microcon was an annual science fiction and fantasy convention, held annually at the University of Exeter in Exeter, Devon, England since 1982, usually over the first weekend in March. It is organised by the Exeter University Science Fiction and Fantasy Society. History and guest speakers * Microcon (12–13 March 1982): Lisa Tuttle * Microcon II (5–6 February 1983): According to a contemporary report, there was no guest of honour at this event. ''(As the numbering increased by five in just four years, it appears likely it jumped a digit during 1984 - 1986)'' * Microcon 7 (1987): Tom Shippey * Microcon 8 (1988): Terry Pratchett, Iain Banks, Neil Gaiman, Dave Langford, Diana Wynne Jones, Colin Greenland, John Brunner, John Grant, Fox, Fay Sampson, Chris Bell * Microcon 9 (1989): David V. Barrett, Adrian Cole, Storm Constantine, Mary Gentle, Fox, Colin Greenland, John Grant, Dave Langford, Pete Loveday, Terry Pratchett, Fay SampsonRon Tiner Diana Wynne Jones * Microcon 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Langford
David Rowland Langford (born 10 April 1953) is a British author, editor, and critic, largely active within the science fiction field. He publishes the science fiction fanzine and newsletter ''Ansible'', and holds the all-time record for most Hugo Awards, with a total of 29 wins. Personal background David Langford was born and grew up in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales before studying for a degree in Physics at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he first became involved in science fiction fandom. Langford is married to Hazel and is the brother of the musician and artist Jon Langford. His first job was as a weapons physicist at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, Berkshire from 1975 to 1980. In 1985 he set up a "tiny and informally run software company" with science fiction writer Christopher Priest, called Ansible Information after Langford's news-sheet. The company has ceased trading. Increasing hearing difficulties have reduced Langford's participation in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Ryman
Geoffrey Charles Ryman (born 1951) is a Canadian writer of science fiction, fantasy, slipstream and historical fiction. Biography Ryman was born in Canada and moved to the United States at age 11. He earned degrees in History and English at UCLA, then moved to England in 1973, where he has lived most of his life. He is gay. In addition to being an author, Ryman started a web design team for the UK government at the Central Office of Information in 1994. He also led the teams that designed the first official British Monarchy and 10 Downing Street websites, and worked on the UK government's flagship website www.direct.gov.uk. Works Ryman says he knew he was a writer "before ecould talk", with his first work published in his mother's newspaper column at six years of age. He is best known for his science fiction; however, his first novel was the fantasy '' The Warrior Who Carried Life'', and his revisionist fantasy of ''The Wizard of Oz'', '' Was...'', has been called "his most a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Green (science Fiction Activist)
Steve Green (born 1960, Solihull, England) is a former newspaper reporter (1978–84) turned freelance journalist, who has also written short fiction and poetry. He is an active member of the science fiction press and fan community. Journalism and other writings Subsequent to his career as a newspaper reporter (initially on ''The Walsall Observer'', later on ''The Solihull News''), Green has contributed to such magazines as '' The Dark Side'' (for which he wrote 51 instalments of the review column "Fanzine Focus"), '' Interzone'' (interviewing the comics writer and editor Stan Lee and the author/screenwriter Peter Atkins), ''Fantasia'' and '' SFX'', as well as being an occasional contributor to the 1990s BBC Radio 5 series ''The Way Out''. He wrote an online column on real ale and the British pub industry for '' The Sunday Mercury'' in the late 2000s and returned to ''The Dark Side'' as a movie reviewer in 2015. With Martin Tudor, he was also the co-editor/publisher of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Greenland
Colin Greenland (born 17 May 1954 in Dover, Kent, England) is a British science fiction writer, whose first story won the second prize in a 1982 Faber & Faber competition. His best-known novel is ''Take Back Plenty'' (1990), winner of both major British science fiction awards, the 1990 British SF Association award and the 1991 Arthur C. Clarke Award, as well as being a nominee for the 1992 Philip K. Dick Award for the best original paperback published that year in the United States. Biography Colin Greenland attended Pembroke College, Oxford, eventually earning a BA, MA (1978), and DPhil (1981). Greenland's first published book, which was based on his DPhil dissertation, was a critical look at the New Wave entitled '' The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction'' (1983). His most successful fictional work is the '' Plenty series'' that starts with ''Take Back Plenty'' and continues with ''Seasons of Plenty'' (1995), ''The Plenty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011) was a British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic, and short story writer. She principally wrote fantasy and speculative fiction novels for children and young adults. Although usually described as fantasy, some of her work also incorporates science fiction themes and elements of realism. Jones's work often explores themes of time travel and parallel or multiple universes. Some of her better-known works are the Chrestomanci series, the Dalemark series, the three ''Moving Castle'' novels, ''Dark Lord of Derkholm'', and '' The Tough Guide to Fantasyland''. Jones has been cited as an inspiration and muse for several fantasy and science fiction authors including Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, Penelope Lively, Robin McKinley, Dina Rabinovitch, Megan Whalen Turner, J.K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman, with Gaiman describing her as "quite simply the best writer for children of her generation". Her work has been nominated for several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Middleton (author)
Richard Middleton may refer to: *Richard Middleton (Lord Chancellor) (died 1272), English theologian, philosopher and Lord Chancellor *Richard Barham Middleton (1882–1911), British poet and ghost story writer * Richard Middleton (priest) (died 1641), Anglican Dean of St David's *Richard Middleton (musicologist), English musicologist and academic * Richard Middleton (political agent) (1846–1905), English Conservative activist *Rick Middleton Richard David "Nifty" Middleton (born December 4, 1953) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player for the New York Rangers and Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. Playing career As a youth, Middleton played in the 1966 Quebec ... (born 1953), ice hockey player * Rick Middleton (American football) (born 1951), former American football player See also * Richard Myddelton (other) * Richard of Middleton (1249–1306), member of the Franciscan Order, theologian and philosopher {{hndis, Middleton, Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Marley (writer)
Stephen Marley is a British author, voice director and video game designer. He was born in Derby of Irish parents and was educated in Bemrose School in Derby and at Nottingham. He graduated in Social Anthropology in 1971 in London, gained an M.Sc in the Sociology of Science in 1973 and worked on his Ph.D on ancient Chinese science while lecturing in Manchester. He gave up an academic career and took up writing full-time in 1985. From 1995 onwards he has also followed a parallel career in video games. In one game he designed on PlayStation, Martian Gothic, he voice directed, among others, Fenella Fielding and Julie Peasgood. He has had eight novels published, the most recent a thriller entitled ''The Heresy''. His third novel, ''Mortal Mask'', was acclaimed 'his masterpiece' in the Clute/Grant The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Novels * ''Spirit Mirror'': Chia Black Dragon series; dark fantasy: publisher HarperCollins (1988) * ''Mary Messiah''; historical/fiction: publisher. Endeavour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Clute
John Frederick Clute (born 12 September 1940) is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969. He has been described as "an integral part of science fiction's history"Davis, MattheJohn Clute: Yakfests of the Empyrean, ''Strange Horizons,'' 18 September 2006. and "perhaps the foremost reader-critic of sf in our time, and one of the best the genre has ever known." He was one of eight people who founded the English magazine '' Interzone'' in 1982 (the others included Malcolm Edwards, Colin Greenland, Roz Kaveney, and David Pringle). Clute's articles on speculative fiction have appeared in various publications since the 1960s. He is a co-editor of ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' (with Peter Nicholls) and of ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy'' (with John Grant), as well as the author of ''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Science Fiction,'' all of which won Hugo Awards for Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Loveday
Pete Loveday is a British underground cartoonist. He is best known for his series of comics charting the adventures of hippie character Russell, including ''Big Bang Comics'', ''Big Trip Travel Agency'' and ''Plain Rapper Comix'' printed by AK Press. Since its initial publication in 1981, ''Big Bang Comics'' is Britain's most successful underground comic book series. His style is reminiscent of US underground comic creators Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton, with a similar use of cross-hatching. Recurring themes in Loveday's comics are drugs, Rock festivals, and environmentalism. ''Plain Rapper Comix'' #2 is Loveday's pamphlet in comic book form on a history of hemp and why it would be beneficial for the environment to replace tree paper with hemp paper. This was the first publication in modern times to be printed on such paper. The Russell comics have been collected in book form, ''Russell, The Saga of a peaceful man'' published by John Brown Publishing. The character o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Gentle
Mary Rosalyn Gentle (born 29 March 1956) is a UK science fiction and fantasy author. Literary career Mary Gentle's first published novel was ''Hawk in Silver'' (1977), a young-adult fantasy. She came to prominence with the '' Orthe'' duology, which consists of ''Golden Witchbreed'' (1983) and ''Ancient Light'' (1987). The novels ''Rats and Gargoyles'' (1990), ''The Architecture of Desire'' (1991), and ''Left to His Own Devices'' (1994), together with several short stories, form a loosely linked series (collected in ''White Crow'' in 2003). As with Michael Moorcock's series about his antihero Jerry Cornelius, Gentle's sequence retains some basic facts about her two protagonists Valentine (also known as the White Crow) and Casaubon while changing much else about them, including what world they inhabit. Several take place in an alternate history version of 17th century and later England, where a form of Renaissance Hermetic magic has taken over the role of science. Another, ''L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storm Constantine
Storm Constantine (12 October 1956 – 14 January 2021) was a British science fiction and fantasy author, primarily known for her Wraeththu series,Encyclopedia of Science Fictio"Constantine, Storm" Retrieved 2010-01-21. which began as one trilogy but has spawned many subsequent works. Beginning in the 1980s, Constantine's short stories appeared in dozens of genre fiction magazines and anthologies. She was the author of over 30 published novels and non-fiction books (often examining issues of sex and gender"Fighting Erasure: Women SF Writers of the 1980s, Part III" by James Davis Nicoll, 10 October 2018. Retrieved 2021-01-20.), plus numerous other publications, including magical grimoires.Interview with Nerine Dorman [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Cole (writer)
Adrian Christopher Synnot Cole (born 22 July 1949 in Plymouth, England), is a British writer. He is known for his Dream Lords trilogy, the '' Omaran Saga'' and '' Star Requiem'' series, and his young adult novels, Moorstones and The Sleep of Giants. Biography Adrian Cole was born in Plymouth, Devonshire in 1949. Cole's father was in the Army, and Adrian spent three years with his family in Malaya when he was a young child, before settling back in Devon. He became interested in fantasy and science fiction at an early age, through ''Tarzan of the Apes'', ''King Solomon's Mines'', movies such as '' Earth versus the Flying Saucers'' and comics such as the original ''Classics Illustrated'' ''War of the Worlds'', as well as the works of Algernon Blackwood, Lovecraft, and Dennis Wheatley. He first read ''The Lord of the Rings'' in the late 1960s while working in a public library in Birmingham, and was inspired by the book to write an epic entitled "The Barbarians," which was eventu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
