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Spiritualised
UK band, formed by and in effect wholly comprising Jason Pierce (1965- ), who sometimes records under the alias "J. Spaceman". There is a floaty, dreamy quality to much Spiritualised music that is focused sometimes through Religion ("Walking With Jesus", "Angel Sigh", both tracks on 1993's album Fucked Up Inside) and sometimes via sf, or more specifically space travel. The band's third studio album ...
Todd, Larry S
(1948-2024) US author and illustrator who began to publish work of genre interest with cartoons in Imagination from the June 1956 issue. His first prose story was "Simon Says" in If for June 1965, as Lawrence S Todd; he also published stories in Galaxy and Worlds of Tomorrow in the 1960s, and contributed artwork to all three magazines. In the 1970s he collaborated with ...
Castier, Jules
(1888-1957) French translator and author, translator of English texts into French, including Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), and vice versa. Written in English, his collection of Parodies of well-known authors, Rather Like ... Some Endeavours to Assume the Mantles of the Great ... With a Publisher's Note Embodying the Opinions of the Great (coll 1920), includes Arthur Conan ...
Bonfiglioli, Kyril
Adopted name of Cyril Emmanuel George Bonfiglioli (1928-1985), UK son of Italo-Slovene and English parents, at various times a book dealer, art dealer, editor of Science Fantasy, and author. In the last capacity he is best known for the Charlie Mortdecai black-comedy thrillers beginning with Don't Point That Thing at Me (1973), which despite a few parodic swipes at Ian Fleming's James Bond ...
Hyperion Press
US publisher based in Westport, Connecticut. Hyperion Press's relevance to sf is through its photographically reproduced reprint series, Classics of Science Fiction; Hyperion was the first publisher to undertake such a series, preceding Arno Press, Garland and Gregg Press. The series editor was Sam Moskowitz, who also provided introductions to many of the ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...