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Midnight Rose was a name taken by a group of ___MASK21___ science fiction and fantasy writers for a series of shared world anthologies published by the Penguin Books imprint Roc . The group ' s " core members " were Alex Stewart , Roz Kaveney , Neil Gaiman and Mary Gentle . Contributors to individual anthologies included Marcus Rowland , Storm Constantine , Kim Newman , Charles Stross , Stephen Baxter , Colin Greenland , Graham Higgins , Paul Cornell and David Langford , among others . Mary Rosalyn Gentle ( born 29 March 1956 ) is a UK ___MASK48___ fiction and ___MASK14___ . Kim James Newman ( born 31 July 1959 ) is an English ___MASK98___ , film critic , and fiction writer . Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction  both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning ' s " Dracula " at the age of eleven  and alternate fictional versions of history . He has won the Bram Stoker Award , the International Horror Guild Award , and the BSFA award . Paul Douglas Cornell ( born 18 July 1967 ) is a British ___MASK24___ best known for his work in ___MASK66___ drama as well as " ___MASK34___ Who " fiction , and as the creator of one of the ___MASK34___ ' s spin - off companions , Bernice Summerfield . Penguin Books is a British publishing house . It was founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head , only becoming a separate company the following year . Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks , sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence , bringing high - quality paperback fiction and non - fiction to the mass market . Penguin ' s success demonstrated that large audiences existed for serious books . Penguin also had a significant impact on public debate in Britain , through its books on British culture , politics , the arts , and ___MASK48___ . Charles David George " Charlie " Stross ( born 18 October 1964 ) is an award - winning British ___MASK24___ of science fiction , Lovecraftian horror and fantasy . ___MASK48___ fiction ( often shortened to SF , sci - fi or scifi ) is a genre of speculative fiction , typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic ___MASK48___ and technology , space ___MASK74___ , time ___MASK74___ , faster than light ___MASK74___ , parallel universes , and extraterrestrial life . ___MASK48___ fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations , and has been called a " literature of ideas ." It usually avoids the supernatural , and unlike the related genre of fantasy , historically ___MASK48___ fiction stories were intended to have a grounding in ___MASK48___ - based fact or theory at the time the story was created , but this connection is now limited to hard ___MASK48___ fiction . Roz Kaveney ( born 9 July 1949 ) is a British ___MASK24___ , ___MASK31___ , and ___MASK75___ , best known for her critical works about pop culture and for being a core member of the Midnight Rose collective . Kaveney ' s works include fiction and non - fiction , poetry , reviewing , and editing . Fantasy is a fiction genre set in an imaginary universe , often but not always without any locations , events , or people from the real world . Most fantasy uses ___MASK29___ or other supernatural elements as a main plot element , theme , or setting . ___MASK29___ and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds . Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes , respectively , though there is a great deal of overlap between the three , all of which are subgenres of speculative fiction . Storm Constantine ( born 1956 ) is a British ___MASK48___ fiction and ___MASK14___ , primarily known for her Wraeththu series . Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman ( born Neil Richard Gaiman , 10 November 1960 ) is an English ___MASK67___ of short fiction , novels , comic books , graphic novels , audio theatre , and films . His notable works include the ___MASK78___ series " The Sandman " and novels " Stardust ", " American Gods ", " Coraline ", and " The Graveyard Book ". He has won numerous awards , including the Hugo , Nebula , and Bram Stoker awards , as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals . He is the first ___MASK67___ to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work , " The Graveyard Book " ( 2008 ). In 2013 , " The Ocean at the End of the Lane " was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards . Colin Greenland ( born 17 May 1954 in Dover , Kent , England ) is a British ___MASK71___ , 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 US . Graham Higgins ( born 1953 ) is a British ___MASK24___ and ___MASK83___ , ___MASK4___ and lecturer . The ___MASK21___ of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the ___MASK21___ ( UK ) or Britain , is a ___MASK70___ country in western Europe . Lying off the north - western coast of the European mainland , it includes the island of Great Britain ( the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole country ), the north - eastern part of the island of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another ___MASK70___ statethe Republic of Ireland . Apart from this land border , the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North Sea to its east , the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south - south - west , giving it the 12th - longest coastline in the world . The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland . With an area of , the UK is the 78th - largest ___MASK70___ state in the world and the 11th - largest in Europe . It is also the 21st - most populous country , with an estimated 65 . 1 million inhabitants . Together , this makes it the fourth most densely populated country in the European Union . David Rowland Langford ( born 10 April 1953 ) is a British ___MASK67___ , ___MASK1___ and ___MASK31___ , largely active within the science fiction field . He publishes the science fiction fanzine and newsletter " Ansible ".