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Yolen, Jane
(1939-2026) US author, partially resident in Scotland, who began publishing poems and articles when still in college, and who first came to notice with books for children, the first of many being Pirates in Petticoats (1963). Of her circa 460 titles, many of which won awards in her field, most were for children (see listing below for some of these), many of them being picture books for younger children; most of her adult fiction, of which she wrote relatively little, was ...
Wilber, Rick
Working name of US academic and author Richard Arnold Wilber (1948- ), who began to publish work of genre interest with "Horatio Hornblower and the Songs of Innocence" in Chrysalis 6 (anth 1980) edited by Roy Torgeson, and many of whose short stories have been assembled as Where Garagiola Waits and Other Baseball Stories (coll 1999), To Leuchars (coll 2001) and ...
Cantor, Jay
(1948- ) US academic and author whose first novel, Krazy Kat: A Novel in Five Panels (1988), Equipoisally implants two characters from the Comic strip Krazy Kat (1916-1944) by George Herriman (1880-1944) – the eponymous Cat and Ignatz Mouse – into a "real-world" analogue of the surrealized Coconino County, Arizona, where the comic is set. Caught in this ...
Solaris
1. Russian two-part Television play (1968). Central Television Studio. Directed by Boris Nirenberg and Lidiya Ishimbyeva. Written by Nicolay Kemasky, based on Solaris (1961; trans 1970; new trans 2011 ebook) by Stanisław Lem. Cast includes Vladimir Elush, Vasily Lanovoy, Antonina Pilyus and Viktor Zozulin. 143 minutes. Black and white. / After ...
Wonder Story Annual
US reprint Pulp magazine published by Better Publications, 1950, and Best Books, 1951-1953, both imprints of Standard Magazines; edited 1950-1951 by Sam Merwin Jr and 1952-1953 by Samuel Mines. The first issue was a bumper 196 pages. The magazine was taking advantage of the publisher's backlog of material bought for Wonder Stories and ...
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 ...