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Beyond, The
US Comic (1950-1955). 30 issues. Ace Magazines, Inc. Artists include Lou Cameron, Frank Giusto, Warren Kremer, Jim McLaughlin, Kenneth Rice and Mike Sekowsky. 36 pages. Usually 4 long strips, 2 one-page strips entitled "True Tales of the Supernatural" and a two-page text story per issue. / The Beyond was primarily a supernatural Horror comic, dominated by stories involving ghosts (see ...
Hatch, Mary R P
(1848-1935) US author who also published as by Mabel Percy, including some mysteries set in the White Mountains of New Hampshire; her novel of sf interest, The Missing Man (first appeared 1892 Portland Maine Transcript; 1892), is a mystery tale whose solution depends on Telepathy. [JC]
MacDonald, Caroline
(1948-1997) New Zealand-born author, in Australia in later years, whose first novel, the Young Adult Elephant Rock (1993 chap), is a Timeslip tale whose protagonist reconciles herself to her mother's coming death by visiting moments in her past. Her work tends to focus on young men and women and failures (or modest triumphs) in communication, as in Visitors (1984), whose solution to ...
Britz-Cunningham, Scott
(? - ) US radiologist and author whose first novel, the Near Future Code White (2013), traces the attempt of a daring neurosurgeon to implant a Computer into the brain of a blind lad, who will be enabled to see; obstacles mount. Interface (2022) continues thematically from Code White in its examination of the political implications of a neural implant that ...
Jonny Quest
1. Animated tv series (1964-1965; vt The Adventures of Jonny Quest). Hanna-Barbera Productions/Screen Gems/Warner Brothers Television for ABC-TV. Created and designed by Doug Wildey. Directed by William Hanna, Joseph Barbera. Writers included Walter Black, Joanna Lee, Wildey, Herbert Finn, and Alex Lovy. Cast includes Danny Bravo, Cathy Lewis, Tim Matheson, Don Messick, Vic Perrin, Mike Road and John Stephenson. 26 25-minute episodes. ...
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 ...