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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 ...
Space Precinct
UK tv series (1994-1995). A Mentorn Films and Gerry Anderson Production. Directors include John Glen, Sidney Havers and Alan Birkinshaw. First episode written by Paul Mayhew-Archer. Cast includes Simone Bendix, Ted Shackleford and Rob Youngblood. Current. First episode October 1994; 24 one-hour episodes. / This syndicated series is apparently based on a singleton drama from some years back entitled Space Police, but the title was changed so as not to infringe the title ...
Peck, Vernon
(? - ) US author of a Near Future Sex novel, Super Sex Captain (1969). [JC]
Fleming, A M
(1858-1948) US author known mainly for his sf-like Munchausen tale, Captain Kiddle: A Fantastic Romance (1889), in which the captain recounts to an interviewer his trip to the Arctic, where he and his crew are imprisoned by Lost Race of giants (see Great and Small), but escape and – after experiences with the Fountain of Youth and a very large serpent – discover an ancient ...
Aitmatov, Chingiz
(1928-2008) USSR-born Kyrgyz author and diplomat; his native province of the then USSR, Kirghizia, became Kyrgyzstan in 1991, though his formative experiences as an author after 1952 or so were as a convinced citizen of and advocate of the Communist government of the USSR; he remained a respected figure for the whole of his long career. He is known mostly for his mainstream fiction (for which he had been a Nobel Prize candidate), which poetically depicts ...
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 ...