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Mano, D Keith
(1942-2016) US actor, author and playwright whose energetic novels confronted Christians (he was himself a Russian Orthodox Christian) with various moral and physical dilemmas. His second novel, Horn (1969), is a transcendental fable; his third, War Is Heaven! (1970), describes with some surreal vividness a Future War in an imaginary – but easily imagined – South American country. The Bridge (1973) is a ...
Spencer, John
(1944-2002) UK author, rock musician and one-time art-agency director, founding what would become Young Artists, a major UK agency for preponderantly sf/fantasy artists. His first sf novel, The Electronic Lullaby Meat Market (1975), in a manner somewhat reminiscent of Mick Farren, sets a quirky thriller in a violently hyperbolic Near-Future world described in sex-charged terms reminiscent of the late-1960s ...
Adventures of Brisco County, Jr, The
US tv series (1993-1994). Boam/Cuse Productions for Warner Bros. Series creators/executive producers Jeffrey Boam, Carlton Cuse. Coproduced by David Simkins, Paul Marks. Writers included Boam, Cuse, Simkins, Brad Kern, John McNamara, John Wirth. Directors included Kim Manners, Andy Tennant. Starred Bruce Campbell as Brisco, Julius Carry as Lord Bowler, Christian Clemenson as Socrates Poole. Recurring players included Billy Drago as John Bly, Kelly Rutherford as Dixie Cousins, John ...
Dulaure, Jacques-Antoine
(1755-1835) French architect, journalist and author of the anonymous Proto SF tale Le retour de mon pauvre oncle, ou Relation de son voyage dans la lune ["The Return of my Poor Uncle, or a Recounting of His Trip to the Moon"] (1784 chap; trans Brian Stableford as "My Poor Uncle's Return" in On the Brink of the World's End anth 2016) [for subtitles see Checklist below], whose physicist protagonist ...
Tushingham, Mark
(1962- ) Canadian environmental policy analyst and author whose Vision of Hell sequence beginning with Hotter Than Hell (2005) sustainedly argues the Near-Future consequences of Climate Change, which include an Invasion of Canada by an America looking for water; in Hell on Earth (2008) those consequences are intensified. The ...
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 ...