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Magroon, Vector
Pseudonym thought to belong to the UK author and editor Julian Franklyn (1899-1970), who also wrote on the occult and parapsychology, and is said to have written both sf and crime for the publishers Scion while an editor there. A single sf novel appeared under the Magroon byline, the Space Flight adventure Burning Void (1952). The frequent identification of this pseudonym as John Russell Fearn's is definitely ...
Marley, Stephen
(1946- ) UK author who began to publish work of genre interest with Spirit Mirror (1988), opening the Chia Black Dragon trio of dark fantasies set in old China. Of direct sf interest are his Ties to the Comics universe of Judge Dredd, these being Judge Dredd: Dreddlocked (1993) and Judge Dredd: Dread Dominion (1994). Another tie, to the ...
Mitchell, David
(1969- ) UK author, in Japan 1994-2000, whose work exhibits a thrusting and muscular (but finely tempered) Equipoise among the genres of Fantastika. His first novel, Ghostwritten: A Novel in Nine Parts (1999), which it would be reductionist to describe as a collection of linked stories, is all the same presented as a set of stories, each of which inhabits a ...
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
US animated tv series (2018-2020). DreamWorks Animation. Developed by/Executive Producer Noelle Stevenson. Directors include Jen Bennett, Roy Burdine and Mandy Clotworthy. Writers include Josie Campbell, Katherine Nolfi, Laura Sreebny and Noelle Stevenson. Voice cast includes Lauren Ash, Aimee Carrero, Karen Fukuhara, Morla Gorrondona, Keston John, AJ Michalka, Marcus Scribner, Lorraine Toussaint and Christine Woods. 52 24-minute episodes plus twelve shorts. Colour. / A reboot of ...
Blaché, Sin
(? - ) US musician and author of fan fiction (see Fandom) under an undisclosed pseudonym, resident in Ireland for some time; for whose first sf publication under their own name, Prophet (2023) with Helen Macdonald, see their co-author for details. [JC]
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 ...