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Conway, Gerard F
(1952-2026) US author informally known as Gerry Conway who began his career in Comics, writing some non-fantastic scripts for Marvel Comics, and editing the short-lived 1973 weird fiction magazine The Haunt of Horror and writing for the 1973-1975 anthology Comic Worlds Unknown. He also worked extensively for ...
Nonstop Magazine
US Semiprozine published and edited by K J Cypret from New York, with Luis Ortiz as art director. It only saw three printed issues, all far apart, Winter 1993, Winter 1995 and Spring 1997. The first two were letter-size and the third review size, with a title change to Nonstop Science Fiction Magazine; the never-completed fourth issue was released in digital (PDF) form only in October 2013, along with digital reissues of the first three. Nonstop was ...
McChesney, Peter
(? - ) Australian author, partly resident in the US, who is of sf interest for the Dawn of Immortality sequence beginning with Quinto's Challenge (2026), the challenge, to scientifically defeat death, having been laid down in the Near Future by American President Quinto. The baton is picked up decades later by a brilliant young Scientist who, ...
Brown, Peter
(1979- ) US illustrator and author whose Wild Robot fiction sequence beginning with The Wild Robot (2016) combines Children's SF with Animal Fantasy [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. The central character is a female Robot whose Transportation box is initially washed up on the shore ...
Arrow, William
A House Name used by Ballantine Books for the Return to the Planet of the Apes Ties, based not on the Planet of the Apes films but on the later animated Television series. William Rotsler wrote #1 Visions from Nowhere (1976) and #3 Man, the Hunted Animal (1976); ...
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 ...