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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author, active from around 1950, several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
de Timms, Graeme
Probable Pseudonym of an unidentified author (? - ). De Timms's Pulp-style paperback sf novels are Three Quarters (1963; vt Plague 1973), about a medical Disaster escalating to Pandemic; and Split (1963; vt The Fringe 1973), about escape from the warring nations of a ...
Whiz Comics
US Comic (1940-1953). Fawcett Publications. 155 issues (#2-#155, with two numbered as #3). Artists include C.C. Beck, Pete Costanza, Kurt Schaffenberger and Basil Wolverton. Scriptwriters include Otto Binder, Rod Reed, Basil Wolverton and Bill Woolfolk. Initially 68 pages, down to 36 by the end of its run. Initially with several long strips, declining to 3-4 as the page numbers reduced; there was also a short text story, plus short ...
Comp, T Allan
(1942- ) US historian and anthologist, in the latter capacity editor of the useful compilation The Man in the Moone and Other Lunar Fantasies (anth 1971; vt The Man in the Moone: An Anthology of Antique Science Fiction and Fantasy 1971) with Faith K Pizor [who see for further details]. Comp's own activities and frequent nonfiction publications have focused on Ecological issues, with ...
They Live
Film (1988). Alive Films. Directed by John Carpenter. Written by Frank Armitage (pseudonym of Carpenter), based on "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" (November 1963 F&SF) by Ray Nelson. Cast includes Keith David, Meg Foster and Roddy Piper. 94 minutes. Colour. / After several not very successful films for major studios (Starman [1984], Christine ...
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 ...