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Stevenson, Burton
(1872-1962) US journalist, librarian, anthologist and author, some of whose work is of some interest, including The Gloved Hand (1913), whose supernatural elements are revealed to be stage machinery, and A King in Babylon (1917), a Lost Race tale. Of more direct sf interest is The Destroyer: A Tale of International Intrigue (1913), in which a French battleship is mysteriously destroyed through the ...
George, W L
(1882-1926) French-born author in UK from early adulthood, in active service during World War One with the French army, prolific from 1911, modestly controversial in various contexts, including Feminism; but a figure whose work (and reputation) never quite jelled. His one novel of sf interest, Children of the Morning (May-December 1926 The Fortnightly Review; 1926), retains some interest for its unmistakable ...
Cramer, John
(1934- ) US experimental physicist (Professor of Physics at the University of Washington) and author; father of Kathryn Cramer; author of the Alternate View series of science articles in Analog regularly from 1984 onwards. His Hard-SF novel, Twistor (1989), engagingly describes the eponymous invention, which sends folk into other ...
Law, Frederick Houk
(1871-1957) US educator and author, whose The Heart of Sindhra: A Novel (1898) is a Lost Race novel set in nineteenth-century northern India, where a revolutionary force is deriving its inspiration from wisdom and treasure emanating from a Lost World in the mountains. [JC]
Dr Cyclops
Film (1940). Paramount Pictures. Directed by Ernest B Schoedsack. Produced by Merian C Cooper and Dale Van Every. Written by Tom Kilpatrick. Cast includes Thomas Coley, Albert Dekker, Paul Fix, Charles Halton, Victor Kilian, Janice Logan, Frank Reicher, Frank Yaconelli. Circa 75 minutes. Colour. / The closeness by date to World War Two is deceptive, as Dr Cyclops, filmed in late 1939 for April 1940 ...
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 ...