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Schwerin, Doris H
(1922-2013) US composer of incidental music for Broadway productions, and author whose The Rainbow Walkers (1985; vt The Missing Years 1986) is an intermittently moving sf tale in which a wealthy man, afflicted with myeloma, puts his body into Cryonic suspension, with poignant consequences. [JC]
See, Carolyn
(1934-2016) US academic, critic and author, most of whose fiction was nonfantastic and most of which, including her two sf novels, is set in Los Angeles (see California). Golden Days (1986), which shifts into the Near Future only in its closing chapters, portrays the doomed private lives of a range of characters as crises, seemingly beyond their ken, escalate into World War Three. ...
Darkover [series]
Popular sequence of Planetary Romances by Marion Zimmer Bradley (whom see for fuller discussion), beginning with The Planet Savers (November 1958 Amazing; 1962 dos) and The Sword of Aldones (1962) – though these are preceded in internal chronology by Darkover Landfall (1972), in which the first human colonists reach the planet Darkover, ...
Skyhorse, Brando
(1973- ) US editor and author whose complex family past has been transformational significance in his work, as unpacked in a memoir, Take This Man (2014); he was born Brando Kelly Ulloa, of Mexican-American parentage, but raised in the belief that he was the son of Paul Skyhorse Johnson, a Native American activist. Issues of Identity – of specifically American identity, which is to say problems inherent to a nation ...
Mills, J M A
(1894-1986) UK author of two novels of the occult, The Tomb of the Dark Ones (1937) and Lords of the Earth (1940), the second being of some sf interest for its sourcing of ancient knowledge and the secret of Immortality in Atlantis. [JC]
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 ...