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Asakura Hisashi
Pseudonym of Zenji Ōtani (1930-2010), the Japanese translator of, among others, J G Ballard, Michael Crichton, Philip K Dick, Harry Harrison and Fritz Leiber. Graduating in Anglo-American studies from Osaka University, he initially worked in a textile company until 1966. A prolific translator for S-F Magazine, he ...
Barnard, Keith
(? - ) UK author whose two sf novels combine horror tropes and Medicine; the particular focus in Embryo (1990) is made clear by its title, while The Betz Cell (1991) applies Near Future medical science to communicating with the dead. [JC]
Tanner, Charles R
(1896-1974) US clerk, salesman and author best known for his series featuring Tumithak, which began with "Tumithak of the Corridors" (January 1932 Amazing). Set in the fifty-third century, two millennia after Earth has been invaded by the shelks from Venus and mankind has been driven underground into a maze of deep tunnels. In that period humans have forgotten most of their previous advanced science. Tumithak, a young man, determines ...
Newman, John [2]
(? - ) US academic and librarian who was credited as Special Collections Librarian at Colorado State University Libraries when he began to publish work of genre interest with a two-part Bibliography of Future War fiction, "America at War: Horror Stories for a Society" in Extrapolation for December 1974 and May 1975. This work led to the ...
O'Neil, Dennis
(1939-2020) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Iconoclasts" for Fantastic in April 1971, and who has since published some short fiction; his first novel, The Bite of Monsters (1971), an sf tale involving an Alien occupation of Earth, which is successfully resisted. O'Neil's main focus for most of his career comprised tales and Graphic Novels ...
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 ...