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Mason, Gregory
(1889-1968) US doctor and author whose novel, The Green Gold of Yucatan (1926), is a Lost Race tale, and whose sf Dystopia, The Golden Archer: A Satirical Novel of 1975 (1956), is a Satire depicting an America suffering under regimented, McCarthy-like bigotry and Religious strife. This author should not be confused with Gregory Mason, a pseudonym ...
Duncan, Andy
(1964- ) US author who was a graduate of the 1994 Clarion West workshop (see Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop) and began to publish work of genre interest with "Liza and the Crazy Water Man" in Starlight 1 (anth 1996) edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden; this is assembled with other early work in Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (coll ...
Petty, John
(1919-1973) UK author, variously employed until he began publishing in 1957. The Last Refuge (1966) is a Post-Holocaust novel set in an oppressive, grey, Dystopian England that provides no refuge for the protagonist-writer. [JC]
McCartney, Paul
(1942- ) UK singer-songwriter who will forever be best known for being a member of the Beatles, although he has made innumerable recordings as a solo artist for over 50 years. He has displayed an occasional interest in sf in the course of his variegated career, mostly during the first decade. / One song on his album Red Rose Speedway (1973) is provocatively called "Loup (1st Indian on the Moon)" but has no lyrics to explain its title. "Nineteen Hundred ...
Heine, Irving
(? - ) Unidentified and perhaps pseudonymous author (probably UK) whose only book credit is for Dimension of Illion (1955). Heine was long thought to be one of the many Pseudonyms of Denis Hughes, who however denied this when interviewed by Steve Holland. [SH/DRL] see also: ...
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 ...