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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
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Film (2024). Neon, Double Agent, Film4. Produced by George Chignell and Asif Kapadia. Directed by Kapadia. Written by Kapadia and Tony Grisoni, loosely inspired by La Jetée (1962) directed by Chris Marker. Cast includes Samantha Morton. 85 minutes. Colour. / In a devastated Post-Holocaust future, some years after The Event (which turns out to have been an accumulation of linked events rather than ...
Wetanson, Burt
Working name of US screenwriter and author Burton R Wetanson (1934- ), who collaborated with Thomas Hoobler (who see for details) on the Hunters sequence comprising The Hunters (1978) and The Treasure Hunters (1983). [JC]
Debrandt, Don H
(1963- ) Canadian author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Payback Tattoo" for Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine #9, Fall 1990, and whose first novel, The Quicksilver Screen (1992), somewhat clumsily posits twenty-first-century Television as opening genuine portals in Alternate Worlds. The Cyber-myth sequence mixes ...
Stoddard, Charles
Pseudonym of US author Charles Stanley Strong (1906-1962); titles under various other pseudonyms were nonfantastic. His sf novel, North of the Stars (1937), describes a clement Lost World near the North Pole, where a white queen rules a race of "primitive" "Eskimos". Stoddard should not be confused with the real American poet Charles Stoddard (1843-1909). [JC]
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...