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John Birmingham (born 7 August 1964) is a British-born Australian author, known for the 1994 memoir He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, the Axis of Time trilogy, and the well-received space opera series, the Cruel Stars trilogy.
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It also tells you whom else you might like if you like one author. Other invaluable works include The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction , edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls (2nd. Ed. 1991), The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction , edited by George Mann (1999) ( ISBN 0-7867-0887-5 or ISBN 1-84119-177-9 ), and Twentieth-Century Science ...
Washington Irving (1783–1859) – author; Elizabeth "Tetty" Johnson (1689–1752) – wife of Samuel Johnson; John Joubert (1927–2019) – South African-born composer; Roi Kwabena (1956–2008) – author; Simon Le Bon (born 1958) – studied drama at the University of Birmingham before joining Duran Duran in 1980; Louis MacNeice (1907 ...
Without Warning contains a large number of references to popular culture. Birmingham, the author, said that he did this as a nod to American novelist Stephen King: . When I was a kid and started reading big, fat books, the thing that struck me about his novels, so different to the dull, dull things they made us read at school, was they were full of real world references.
In 2005, BBC One broadcast a television documentary about his life, A Picture of Birmingham, by Benjamin Zephaniah, which was repeated by BBC Two on 7 December 2023. [52] In December 2012, he was guest editor of an episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme Today, for which he commissioned a "good news bulletin". [53] [54]
“Revival,” Syfy’s upcoming adaptation of Tim Seeley and Mike Norton’s Image Comics series of the same name, has set its main cast. Led by Melanie Scrofano, Romy Weltman, David James ...
Carl Steven Alfred Chinn MBE DL (born 6 September 1956) is an English historian, author and radio presenter whose working life has been devoted to the study and popularisation of the city of Birmingham.