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Conesa, Lisa
(1935-1991) Polish-born author, editor, poet and fan, in the UK from a very early age, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Millionaires" for Macrocosm in December 1971 but thereafter wrote only poems, reviews and criticism. She published the well-produced and highly regarded 1970s Fanzine Zimri (eight issues, 1971-1976), whose contributors included Brian W Aldiss (poems), John ...
X Minus One
Radio series (1955-1958). NBC-Radio network. NBC staff writers included Ernest Kinroy, George Lefferts and Howard Rodman. 126 30-minute episodes. / Initially a revival of Dimension X (1950-1951), this sf Radio drama anthology series was partnered at first with Astounding and later (from February 1956) with Galaxy, from which magazines the vast majority of stories were ...
Dorsey, Candas Jane
(1952- ) Canadian author, arts journalist and social worker, author of three early volumes of poetry; married to Timothy J Anderson. Dorsey began publishing work of genre interest with "Columbus Hits the Shoreline Rag" (in Getting Here, anth 1977, ed Rudy Weibe); her terse, complex stories, assembled primarily in Machine Sex ... And Other Stories (coll 1988), Vanilla and Other Stories (2000) ...
Living Worlds
The notion that a planet might be a living creature is a rather startling one; indeed, it was initially used purely for its shock value. In R A Kennedy's remarkable philosophical extravaganza The Triuneverse (1912), Mars begins to reproduce by binary fission and its daughter cells devour much of the solar system. In "When the World Screamed" (25 February-3 March 1928 Liberty; April-May 1928 ...
McWilliams, Kelly
(circa 1989- ) US author whose second novel, the Young Adult Agnes at the End of the World (2020), follows its protagonist from her upbringing, in a Near Future Dystopian Keep-like enclave dominated by a fundamentalist cleric (see Religion), into the larger world beyond, which seems about to succumb to a ...
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 ...