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Holocaust Fiction
The term Holocaust is used in this encyclopedia to designate the fictionally popular variety of catastrophe which is directly caused by human or occasionally Alien action, intentional or otherwise. It is not normally here used to refer to the Holocaust, which is generally understood to refer to Germany's attempted extermination of the Jews of Europe (along with Slavs, gypsies, mental "defectives", etc) during ...
Albedo One
Irish low-paying magazine of sf, fantasy and horror fiction which appeared irregularly; formerly two or three times per year, latterly once or twice; there was a three-year gap between issue #47 in 2016 and #48 in 2019. First issue, Summer 1993, but undated from issue #4. Originally published by Tachyon Productions, Dublin, Eire, as an A5 booklet, the publisher became Albedo One Productions, Dublin, from issue #12 (1996), and it switched to A4 format. Digital copies in PDF format have also been ...
Hutchinson, Shaun David
(1978- ) US author of Young Adult novels, several of them sf, most of them directly or indirectly focused on issues of adolescent Sex; some of his protagonists, some of them gay, come close to suicide as they pass through the gauntlet of coming of age. The protagonist of his first novel, The Deathday Letter (2010), set in an indistinctly Near Future ...
Arnold, Frank Edward
Working name of UK author Francis Joseph Eric Edward Arnold (1914-1987), active in World War Two; in the 1930s he was an early member of UK Fandom, publishing in Fanzines – including the first two issues of this incarnation of New Worlds – as Frank E Arnold or Francis Arnold. His first professional sale was "City of Machines" in ...
Pollard, Leslie
(? -? ) UK author of Menace: A Novel of the Near Future (1935), in which a Russian Invasion of the UK by air is mounted in the Near Future; and repulsed. [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 ...