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Richardson, David J
(? - ) US author of The Star Dwarves Travesty (1994; vt The Star Dwarves Trilogy 1997), a Parody of the first three volumes (by real world chronology) of George Lucas's Star Wars film sequence, focusing more on puns and intermittent attempts at narrative hoopla. Sf spoofs based on funny name changes – Luke Skywalker ...
MacFadden, Patrick
(? - ) Canadian author of sf interest for Your Place or Mine?: An Entertainment (1978) with Robert Chodos and Rae Murphy, which recounts a joint Near Future Invasion of Canada by three surrounding superpowers – America, the USSR and Japan – after three assassinations ...
Grigsby, Sean
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Eternal H" in Children of the Moon: A Werewolf Anthology (anth 2011) edited by C Bryan Brown. His first novel, Smoke Eaters (2018), though set in the Near Future, features as protagonist a street-wise but weary firefighter worn out after decades of fighting fiery dragons, but called back for a further stand-off; though witty, this ...
Ruders, Poul
(1949- ) Danish composer. His opera The Handmaid's Tale (1998), with a libretto by Paul Bentley, is based on The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood. The opera shifts the novel's epilogue, a symposium on the Republic of Gilead in 2195, to become a prologue, but otherwise follows the story of the handmaid Offred, her relationship with the commander Fred, and her arrest by the Eyes of God police force. The music ...
Rimel, Duane W
(1915-1996) US poet and author of some short fiction, some of it with H P Lovecraft; his sf novel, Time Swap (1969) as by Rex Weldon, combines Time Travel and Sex. [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 ...