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Grosvenor, Rachel
(circa 1987- ) UK freelance writing coach and author in whose first novel, The Finery (2023), a centenarian woman and her companion wolf resist the ostensibly benign surveillance of a Near Future Dystopian government. Her actions, which may seem implausibly successful, are narrated in a perhaps refreshingly light tone. [JC]
Cité Foudroyée, La
French silent film (1924; vt The City Struck by Lightning; vt The City Destroyed; vt The Thunderstruck City; vt The Destruction of Paris). Films de France. Directed by Luitz-Morat. Written by Jean-Louis Bouquet (based on one of his short stories). Cast includes Alexis Ghasne, Jane Maguenat, Daniel Mendaille and Armand Morins. 70 minutes. Black and white. / Scientist Richard Gallee (Mendaille) ...
Journal Wired
Semi-annual Semiprozine from a Small Press in trade paperback form ("bookazine"), Winter 1989 to Summer/Fall 1990, 3 issues only, published and edited from California and Colorado by Andy Watson and Mark V Ziesing. This hip, elegant and irreverent periodical ran fiction by a mixture of interesting new writers and better known names (like Paul ...
Amazing Man Comics
US Comic (1939-1942). Comic Corporation of America. 22 issues, numbered #5-#26. Artists include Martin Filchock, Lew Glanzman, John Kolb, Sam Glanzman, Frank Thomas and Basil Wolverton. Scriptwriters include Martin Filchock, Lew Glanzman, Allen L Kirby, John Kolb, Frank Thomas and Basil Wolverton. 68 pages per issue, usually with 8-9 long strips and a short text story, plus occasional short fiction and non-fiction strips as filler, the latter including a piece on ...
Ulidia
Pseudonym of the unidentified UK author (? -? ) of the Near Future The Battle of Newry; Or, the Result of Thirty Years' Liberal Legislation (1883 chap) where, after the House of Lords is abolished in 1910, the better sort emigrate to America; Ulster and Scotland then revolt in alliance with the threatened monarchy, socialism collapses, and prosperity and social calm reign once more (see ...
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 ...