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Alt Hist
UK low-paying Magazine which ran for ten issues from October 2010 to February 2017; published and edited by Mark Lord in Hertfordshire, at irregular intervals once or twice a year, available both as a Print Magazine and Ebook. It was primarily intended as a magazine of historical fiction but also featured Alternate History which usually provided about half the ...
Mars, Sergio
(1976- ) Spanish author, critic, editor, publisher and translator, one of the best Hard SF writers in Spanish. He has published four sf and fantasy novels, four collections, an essay and about seventy short stories, some of them set in Tolkien's Middle-earth. He is quite popular in Spanish and Latin American sf magazines and anthologies, with dozens of collaborations in the ...
Palwick, Susan
(1961- ) US academic, Professor Emerita at the University of Nevada since 2017, and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Woman Who Saved the World" in Asimov's for May 1985, and who has since published short fiction regularly, much of this output being assembled in The Fate of Mice (coll 2007). Her second collection, All Worlds Are Real: Short Fictions (coll 2019), contains work ranging from ...
Elliott, John
(1759-1834) UK author, imputed author (though he seems young for the task) of The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman ... (1778) as by Hildebrand Bowman, a Fantastic Voyage into various remote parts of the South Pacific, including Islands and Utopias, some in nether New Zealand; see Checklist for full title, which is thorough. It has been suggested in the magazine ...
Charcuterie Mécanique, La
French silent film (1895; vt The Mechanical Butcher). Lumière Brothers. Written and directed by Louis Lumière. Cast unknown. 1 minute. Black and white. / This very short work is probably the first science fiction film ever made – though, as records from the early days of Cinema can be scanty or vague (for example, some sources put the release date as 1895/1896) and many films have been lost, this ...
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 ...