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Crowley, John
(1942-2026) US teacher and author who also worked in documentary films and television for some time beginning in 1966. His sf novels have had a considerable impact on the field, and his fantasies established him as a figure whose work courteously but deeply stretched the boundaries of genre literature. / His first novel, The Deep (1975), is set on a flat discworld resting on a pillar that extends beyond measurement into the circumambient galactic Deep, in which very few stars ...
Girl from U.N.C.L.E., The
US tv series (1966-1967). Arena Productions/MGM for NBC TV. Executive producer Norman Felton. Writers include Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Samuel A. Peeples, and Sam Rolfe. Directors include John Brahm, Mitchell Leisen, Leo Penn, Joseph Sargent, and Barry Shear. Cast includes Leo Carroll, Noel Harrison, and Stefanie Powers. 29 50-minute episodes. Colour. / This spinoff from The ...
Elwood, Roger
(1943-2007) US author and editor who published a large amount of nonfiction from about 1960, and began his main career, as editor, with a number of reprint Anthologies in the 1960s – though in fact those published under his own name were ghost-edited by Sam Moskowitz; those ostensibly in collaboration with Moskowitz or Vic Ghidalia were packaged by Elwood but not edited by him. Another ...
Beaumont, Charles
(1929-1967) US scriptwriter and author, who was born Charles Leroy Nutt but legally changed his name to Charles Beaumont; in various 1940s Fanzines he used the pen-name Charles McNutt, his byline as editor of Utopia (1 issue, 1942) and co-editor of Starlit Fantasy (2 issues 1942-1943) with Harry Schmarje; he also published fanzine illustrations in collaboration with fan artist Wilma Bellingham under the joint pseudonym E T Beaumont. He began publishing ...
Goldbarth, Albert
(1948- ) US academic, collector of 1950s space toys and poet who remains outside the loose grouping of poets (see Poetry) that has dominated American sf poetry for many years; he has not, for instance, ever won a Rhysling Award, though he has received some more general recognitions, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the National Book Critics Circle award twice. His one novel, Pieces of Payne ...
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 ...