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Sarrantonio, Al
(1952-2025) US editor and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Ahead of the Joneses" in Asimov's for March 1979. Much of his work was horror, sometimes tinged with sf (see Horror in SF), including his first novel, The Worms (1985), a Gothic tale set in Massachusetts with hints of H P Lovecraft; and the Equipoisal Moonbane ...
Dorfman, Ariel
(1942- ) Argentinian-born academic, playwright, journalist and author, in Chile from early childhood, alternatingly in the US from the late 1960s; active from the late 1960s. His work as a writer has been intimately engaged with the fate of Chile from the election of Salvador Allende (1908-1973) in 1970, through his death after an America-inspired coup in 1973, and through the tumultuous years since. His work in general is nonfantastic, though the main protagonist of ...
Fractale
Japanese animated tv series (2011). A-1 Pictures, Ordet. Written by Mari Okada. Directed by Yutaka Yamamoto. Voice cast includes Shintaro Asanuma, Kana Hanazawa, Yuka Iguchi, Yū Kobayashi and Minami Tsuda. Eleven 23-minute episodes. Colour. / In twenty-second-century Ireland, fourteen-year-old Clain (Kobayashi) lives in an isolated cottage; his social interactions are usually with "doppels" or Avatars, such as his parents'. ...
Hoffman, Eva
(1945- ) Polish academic and author, in Canada and the USA from the late 1950s (she is a citizen of both countries), but for many years in the UK. Hoffman is best known as a memoirist and as a historian of Jewish life and death during World War Two, her nonfiction titles including Exit Into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe (1993), Stetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews ...
Fezandié, Clement
(1865-1959) US businessman, playwright and author based circa 1886-1919 in New York, though he lived and travelled in the Middle East in later life, and died in Belgium. Of his earlier work, The Revenge: A Tragedy in Three Acts (1895 chap) with Rodolphe De L'Escale involves a ghost; and The Sturgis Wager: A Detective Story (1899) as by Edgar Morette features a murderer who dissolves his victims in an sf-like fluid. His sf novel proper, Through the Earth ...
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 ...