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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Tomorrow, When the War Began
Film (2010). OmniLab and Screen Australia in association with Paramount Pictures present an Ambience Entertainment production. Written and directed by Stuart Beattie. Based on Tomorrow, When the War Began (1993) by John Marsden. Cast includes Deniz Akdeniz, Ashleigh Cummings, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Lincoln Lewis, Chris Pang, Andy Ryan, Caitlin Stasey and Phoebe Tonkin. 103 minutes. Colour. / Seven teenagers return from a bush weekend to find ...
Mark V Ziesing
US Small Press. Mark V Ziesing was the direct successor to Ziesing Brothers, which booksellers Michael Ziesing (1946-2022) and his brother Mark V Ziesing (1953- ) had founded in Willimantic, Connecticut, initially to publish poetry, but which then produced two books by Gene Wolfe: The Castle of the Otter (coll 1982) and The Wolfe Archipelago (coll 1983). ...
Hanshew, T W
(1857-1914) US-born author, in the UK from 1892, active as a writer of Pulp-magazine fiction and creator of the flamboyant burglar-turned-detective Hamilton Cleek (or rather, as he signs his early letters to Scotland Yard, "The Man Who Calls Himself Hamilton Cleek"), introduced in a series of magazine stories beginning with "The Man of the Forty Faces" (August 1910 People's Ideal Fiction Magazine) and in book form as The Man of the Forty Faces ...
Galactic Cowboys
US rock group who have returned repeatedly to sf themes in their music, often evoking motifs and venues found in sf Westerns. Their 1991 eponymous debut crashes and bashes through songs that use the Moon landing, including audio samples of Neil Armstrong, as a point of reference: particularly "Pump Up The Space Suit" and the ironically titled (given its raucously insistent heavy metal style) "Sea of Tranquillity". "Ranch on Mars" ...
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 ...