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Brown, Zachary
Pseudonym of unidentified US author (? - ) who under this name is of sf interest for their Icarus Corps sequence of Military SF tales comprising The Darkside War (2015), Titan's Fall (2016) and Jupiter Rising (2017 ebook). The action, in which grunts suffer and triumphalism is muted, takes place in a Solar System whose human inhabitants are ...
Crossen, Kendell Foster
(1910-1981) US author and editor, active under various names in various Pulp-magazine markets, perhaps most notably as an author of detective stories, his best work being published under his own name and (more successfully) as M E Chaber. The Green Lama series of thrillers (in Double Detective from 1940), as by Richard Foster, gives off fantastic-Pulp-magazine emanations reminiscent of Doc Savage, as the Green Lama himself ...
Savile, Steven
(1969- ) UK editor, Games developer and author, in Sweden from 1997, beginning to publish work of genre interest with "Coming for to Carry You Home" in Exuberance for June 1992; he also signs his name Steve Savile, and has written as by Alex Archer (a house name used for the Rogue Angel sequence), Ronan Frost and Logan Savile. Early work was assembled as Icarus Descending (coll 1999 ...
Shear, David
(1938-2007) US biophysicist and author whose Near Future sf novel, Cloning (1972), complicatedly entwines the presence of Androids and Cloning in the world of 2020; the protagonist, a molecular biologist who is an unknowing member of a cluster of clones, must cope with profound issues of Identity, dramatized through an Android campaign ...
Angel's Egg
Japanese Original Video Animation film (1985); original title Tenshi no Tamago. Studio Deen. Created by Yoshitaka Amano and Mamoru Oshii. Directed and written by Mamoru Oshii. Voice cast: Mako Hyōdō and Jinpachi Nezu. 71 minutes. Colour. / A young man (Nezu) watches a vast eye-like sphere, adorned in praying statues, descend into the sea. ...
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 ...