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Muir, Douglas

(? - ) US author of American Reich (1985), a Near Future tale of political Paranoia in which elements of the American military with neo-Nazi connections take over the government. [JC]

(1743-1825) UK educationist and author, important exponent of Unitarianism, whose stories for young children became famous. She is of Proto SF interest for Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: A Poem (1812 chap), which conveys in Gothic terms the vision of a Near Future Britain, some time after its defeat in the long war against Napoleonic France; the ruined country, including London itself (see ...

Mars [film]

Russian film (1968). Lennauchfilm. Directed and written by Pavel Klushantsev. Briefly seen cast members are unidentified. 50 minutes. Black and white. / This successor to Klushantsev's Space Documentaries Doroga k Zvezdam and Luna focuses on the planet Mars, devoting most of its length to a discussion of how humans have long ...

Reichardt, Jasia

(1933- ) Polish-born journalist, editor, exhibition curator and author, in UK from 1942, having escaped from the Polish ghetto with the aid of a relative, Franciszka Themerson; Reichardt later edited much work for Gaberbocchus Press (see Stefan Themerson) and elsewhere. Of the several exhibitions she has mounted, Cybernetic Serendipity (London: ICA, 1968-1969) (see Cybernetics) was perhaps ...

Favole, Robert J

(1950- ) US author of two connected Time Travel tales for the Young Adult market, Through the Wormhole (2001) and Monday Redux (2003), each involving its young protagonist in a trip back through time to save friends and relatives from danger. [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 ...