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Gunn, David
(? - ) Author, almost certainly pseudonymous, whose Military SF tale, Death's Head (2007), which is set in anonymous Space Opera country and features an exceedingly tough protagonist, begins the Death's Head sequence. This series appears to have ceased with the third volume, Death's Head: Day of the Damned (2009), despite the author's announcement in 2009 ...
Holland, Clive
Pseudonym of UK author Charles James Hankinson (1866-1959) who began publishing stories in the Boys' Papers in the mid 1880s, and who is of genre interest for three novels: Raymi; Or, the Children of the Sun (1889), an eighteenth-century Lost World adventure involving pirates and the discovery of El Dorado in Peru; An Egyptian Coquette (1898; rev vt The Spell of Isis: A Romance of Egypt ...
Creative Brother's Sci-Fi Magazine
US low-paying print-on-demand Semiprozine produced and edited by Cecil Washington of Oxon Hill, Maryland. It ran for eleven issues from October 2003 to May 2008, usually two issues per year. The magazine was dedicated to running Speculative Fiction either by Black writers or featuring Black characters and Black themes, but it was evident from Washington's regular editorial pleas that acquiring such fiction in sufficient ...
Chapman, Stepan
(1951-2014) US author who also wrote as Steve Chapman; he began to publish work of genre interest with "Testing ... One, Two, Three, Four" in Analog for December 1969. Some of his better early work was published – along with stories by R A Lafferty, whose deadpan disjunctiveness he shared – in the Original Anthology series Orbit, including "Troika" in ...
Watts, John
Pseudonym of Scottish author Hugh Miller (1937- ), who under his own name has written crime novels, often involving forensic medicine, and Ties to the UK Eastenders television soap opera, which is nonfantastic. Head of State (1979) as Watts is a Near Future tale in which a scientist's brain is transplanted (see Identity Transfer) into the body of the ...
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 ...