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Sallis, James
(1944-2026) US musician, poet and author, briefly active in New Worlds during its Michael Moorcock-directed New-Wave phase; he began to publish work of genre interest in this context with "Kazoo" (August 1967 New Worlds) and co-edited the magazine 1968-1969. His clearly acknowledged models in the French avant garde and the gnomic brevity of much of his work ...
Miller, William Amos
(circa 1875-? ) UK-born author, in USA from childhood, who briefly describes his experience of being both blind and deaf in the preface to his Utopia, The Sovereign Guide: A Tale of Eden (1898), whose San Francisco-based protagonist, on a visit to Rome, is taken by an angel to a Magnet-powered submarine which conducts him downwards into the Hollow Earth. Here he ...
Go, Go, Loser Ranger!
Japanese animated tv series (2024; original title Sentai Daishikkaku). Yostar Pictures. Based on the Manga by Negi Haruba. Directed by Keiichi Sato. Written by Keiichirō Ōchi. Voice cast includes Go Inoue, Daishi Kajita, Yuichi Nakamura, Yūsuke Kobayashi, M.A.O, Kensho Ono, Kohsuke Toriumi and Yumika Yano. Twelve 24 minute episodes. Colour. / We are told of "The gigantic floating fortress that appeared out of ...
Smullyan, Raymond
(1919-2017) US mathematician, philosopher and author, professor of philosophy at the City University of New York and Indiana University. His popular non-academic works include many collections of ingenious logical puzzles, often – as in similar writings by Martin Gardner, Douglas Hofstadter and Ian Stewart – spiced with Fantastika. Thus the ...
Mortimore, Jim
(1962- ) UK author who specializes in Ties, mostly for the Doctor Who universe, beginning with Doctor Who: The New Adventures: Lucifer Rising (1993) with Andy Lane, though he has also contributed to the Babylon 5 universe, beginning with Babylon 5 Book 4: Clark's Law (1996). Space Truckers (1997) which is standalone, ...
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 ...