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Davidson, Steve
(1958-2026) US fan (active with letters published in SF Magazines as early as 1978), editor and publisher. In 2012 he acquired the then-moribund Amazing Stories (which see), reviving it first as a lively website with a news and reviews blog, then with ebook and webzine issues, and – with help from Kickstarter funding – as a print magazine from August 2018 (#614 dated Fall 2018) to Summer 2020 (#619) with Ira ...
Taylor, Catherine
(1958- ) Canadian author not to be confused with several other authors named Catherine Taylor in whose Near Future Young Adult Dystopian novel Thirst (2005) a girl on crutches leaves her City to find a new world, which she does. [JC]
Holmes, Robert
(1926-1986) UK scriptwriter, editor and author, best known for his contributions in these capacities to the Doctor Who universe, including "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" (1977 6 parts), which despite its alleged Yellow Peril racism is generally recognized to be one of the best Doctor Who tales; in adapted form it was published as Doctor Who: The Scripts: The Talons of Weng-Chiang (1989); he also published ...
Toledano Redondo, Juan Carlos
(1971- ) Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo was born in Adra, Spain. He completed a BA at the Universidad de Granada in Spanish Philology and a PhD in Romance Languages at the University of Miami, Florida. He is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, and works on the fantastic in Spanish-language contemporary narrative. / Toledano has dedicated most of his research life to investigating the relationship between the Castro ...
Cowan, James
(1841-1906) US author and journalist whose sf novel, Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World (1896), features an ambulatory Moon which after falling into the Pacific Ocean makes it possible for the narrator of the tale, with companions, to fly to Mars in a Balloon, where they discover a new defence of Christianity in the form of parallel Evolution and multiple incarnations of ...
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 ...