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Basilisks
The concept of pure information as a Weapon which adversely affects the mind or body is a recurring sf theme. Many authors have given this form of science-fictional spin to a notion grounded in Mythology, where the basilisk is an imaginary creature which (like Medusa and her sister Gorgons) can kill with a glance; and in Horror, where sights too dreadful to look upon are commonplace. One notable ...
McCord, P B
(1871-1908) US cartoonist, illustrator and author of a Prehistoric SF tale, Wolf: The Memoirs of a Cave-Dweller (1908), set prior to the emigration of peoples across the Bering Straits into North America. McCord, who died while his only book was in the press, is one of the subjects fictionalized in Twelve Men (coll 1919) by Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945). [JC]
Itäranta, Emmi
(1976- ) Finnish journalist, scriptwriter and author, resident in England, who either translates into or writes the original manuscripts of her novels in English; her first novel, Teemestarin kirja ["The Book of the Master of Tea"] (2012; English version by author as Memory of Water 2014), is a Young Adult tale set in a Dystopian seemingly distant ...
Moss, Mia V
(? - ) US author of the Near Future Mai Tais for the Lost: A Novella of The Nightingale Electric Company (2022), whose protagonist, a private detective named Marrow Nightingale, faces a family-romance murder in a City Under the Sea (see Zone) designed to protect the ultra rich from the consequences of the desolating ...
Finelli, Jen
(? - ) US medical doctor and author whose first novel, Becoming Hero (2017), stretches toward the Equipoisal in its depiction of a fictional Comic Superhero's attempt, once he escapes the book in which he is written, to beard his creator. She is of more direct sf interest for the Neodymium Chronicles sequence beginning with ...
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 ...