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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 ...
Wiernik, Bertha
(1884-?1951) Lithuanian-born translator, poet, playwright and author, in US from 1887; beginning with her first publications in 1899, she also wrote as by Shulamit. Much of her work appeared in Yiddish publications in America, some of it in conjunction with the work of her brother, Peter Wiernik (1865-1936); after his death she gradually fell silent. Though some of her plays may have elements of Fantastika, most – like Destruction (first performed 30 ...
Anderson, Timothy J
(1958- ) Canadian editor, playwright and author, married to Candas Jane Dorsey; he is a member of Books Collective in Edmonton, Alberta, which publishes Tesseract Books, one of the central publishers of Canadian sf (see Canada, English). His first sf novel, Resisting Adonis (2001), is an erotic thriller (see Sex). [JC]
Sterne, Julian
Pseudonym of UK conspiracy theorist and author Nesta Helen Webster (1876-1960), whose early Feminism faded after World War One, when her public avowal of the essential truths contained in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (trans 1920) survived the almost immediate demonstration that they were an anti-Semitic hoax; she faded almost completely from view. She did subsequently publish a novel no less implausible as ...
Iron Man 2
Film (2010). Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment present a Marvel Studios production in association with Fairview Entertainment. Directed by Jon Favreau. Written by Justin Theroux, based on the Marvel Comics series created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Jack Kirby, and Don Heck. Cast includes Don Cheadle, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Gwyneth Paltrow, ...
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 ...