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Forester, C S
Pseudonym – which he sometimes wrote out in full as Cecil Scott Forester – of Egyptian-born UK author Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (1899-1966), mostly in the USA from the mid-1940s. He is very much better known for his work outside the sf field, which includes The African Queen (1935) and the twelve Horatio Hornblower naval-adventure books, mostly set during the Napoleonic Wars with the total period covered being 1794-1823: the first published though not the ...
Vickers, Salley
(1948- ) UK poet and author, active from around 2000, most of whose work is nonfantastical. Mr Golightly's Holiday (2003) features a faded novelist who finds that, via some tentative musings about his next book, has become the Secret Master of the small village where he is staying; Jehovah is invoked. A literal reading of Where Three Roads Meet (2007; vt Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus ...
2010
Film (1984). MGM/UA. Produced, directed, photographed and written by Peter Hyams, based on 2010: Odyssey Two (1982) by Arthur C Clarke. Cast includes Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren and Roy Scheider. 116 minutes. Colour. / Nine years after the events of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), a joint Soviet-US space mission in a Russian ...
Leicht, Stina
(1972- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Last Drink Bird Head" in Last Drink Bird Head: Flash Fiction for Charity (anth 2009) edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer. Much of her work has been fantasy, including two series, the Fey and the Fallen sequence beginning with Of Blood and Honey (2011), and the Malorum Gates sequence ...
Black, Pansy E
(1890-1957) US stenographer and short story author, born Pansy Ellen Beach, whose two stories for Hugo Gernsback's Science Fiction Series are located in Australia. The Valley of the Great Ray (1930 chap) is a Lost Race tale set in the desert, while The Man from the Meteor (1932 chap) features invading Aliens who also hole up in 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 ...