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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
Ewing, Al
(1977- ) UK comics writer and fiction author whose first works of genre interest were stories for the "Future Shocks" department of 2000 AD, followed by work on the Judge Dredd strip. He has since written for a number of Marvel Comics titles, including the award-winning multi-Superhero crossover Empyre (main arc July-September 2020, plus ...
Destinies
US "magazine" in paperback-book format published by Ace Books, edited by James Baen, 11 issues, November 1978-August 1981, last issue undated. The list of contributors to all sections of the magazine – which could equally be thought of as an original-Anthology series – was impressive. Book reviews were by Spider Robinson, with Orson Scott ...
Horwood, William
(1944- ) UK author best-known for the Duncton Chronicles, a double sequence of Animal Fantasies, Duncton Wood beginning with Duncton Wood (1980) and The Book of Silence beginning with Duncton Tales (1991). Set in rural England near Oxford, and telling the saga through many generations of a complex culture of moles, the sequence has some resemblance to Richard Adams's Watership Down ...
Hastings, Milo
(1884-1957) US nutritionist, editor – for many years involved in magazine projects with Bernarr Macfadden – and author, sometimes on agricultural subjects; The Dollar Hen (1909) is a nonfiction text about hens. With striking accuracy, his Future War sf stories centre on conflict between either Japan or Germany and the rest of the world. The first of them, "In the Clutch of the War-God: The Tale of ...
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 ...