I can give you even less information about Taibah Al-Ibrahim than I could about Carine Heidmann. Al-Ibrahim writes in Arabic and was the first science fiction writer in Kuwait. She has written several books, the translated title of one book is The Extinction of Men, published in 1990. And she was a candidate for ...
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Est. 2009
Looking through my copies of ASIM I found Carine Heidmann and after a quick (and then slow) read of her short story I figured she’d be good target for today’s letter. I don’t have a lot of information about her, the best I can find is published in the back ...
I decided to write about Mary Gentle as I love her name and then in doing more research I found a very interesting blog, the author positively loves Gentle and thinks she’s awesome, the article made me want to write about her for much better reasons. Born in the UK in ...
it means I’m about to fly off on a jaunt to Israel. We’ll be away for three weeks and at this point in time I can guarantee pickings will be reduced on this blog. I have typed up something I submitted to my English teacher but she didn’t like it enough so ...
When I first started researching this letter I thought I’d have great trouble as I couldn’t find females writing science fiction. Where are the women authors in the science fiction genre? Then I found a list, clicked on all the authors and whittled down the 30 something entries to eight likely ...
Introduced to me months ago by Jen when I wrote about William Ellern so here I am writing about Sylvia Engdahl. I find I’m fascinated by her. She has a Facebook page which she obviously works on, including responding to people. She has a blog which she doesn’t work on very much, ...
Diane Duane is a youngish author having been born in 1952 and in New York City to boot! Her writing crosses the threshold between fantasy and science fiction and it’s very obvious with her Star Trek works. She’s written several of the Star Trek Novels and co-wrote the script for one ...
Looking for B in female science fiction authors I came across an interesting thought. I have a book which I refer to for this kind of thing, The Illustrated Book of Science Fiction Lists, put together in 1982 before we started being really proactive about female authors and in the ...
Having successfully navigated myself from one end of the alphabet to the other with male science writers I’m now embarking on another journey, that of female science fiction writers. I fully expect to encounter both the familiar and the unfamiliar names with some of the more challenging letters being filled ...
Last, but certainly not least in the Alphabet by Author, is George Zebrowski. Born Jerzy (pronounced Yerzhee) Tadeus Zebrowski in Austria of Polish descent which for some reason explains the Polish name in 1945. He’s been published since about 1972 and has a respectable body of work to his name. Some of ...
X is a very interesting letter and I wondered to myself last night who I could possibly find to fill today’s void. My first stop was SF Encyclopedia where I found five entries, they all appear to be pen names, one is female and the person who seemed to fit the bill for me ...
Jack Wodhams is Australian! I’ve found another Australian science fiction author…I know there are plenty of you out there but I’ve never really worried about the country of the author when reading so finding out where they live has been an interesting experience. Wodhams wasn’t actually born in Australia but came ...
The World of Null-A I thought van Vogt would be a good person to do today as I have some of his books on our shelves…yes, well, I still need to find them. I have memories of seeing them in the dim, dark past but I cannot find them today ...
Just like me I’m sure you’re asking lots of ‘wh’ questions. Born in 1958 he is a Romanian science fiction author and journalist but I won’t hold that last bit against him. Romanian has a burgeoning science fiction community. Whenever I have an awkward letter to fill I end up finding a ...
Theodore L. Thomas AKA Cosgwell Thomas AKA Leonard Lockard AKA Ted Thomas AKA T. L. Thomas AKA Theodore Lockhard Thomas AKA Theo. L. Thomas. I think that’s all, I got this from multiple sources so there could well be more. 1920 to 2005, writer of more than 50 science fiction short stories as well ...