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Out of the Unknown
UK tv series (1965-1971). BBC TV. Produced by Irene Shubik (seasons 1 and 2), Alan Bromly (seasons 3 and 4). Script editor Irene Shubik (seasons 1 and 2), Roger Parkes (seasons 3 and 4). Writers included Terry Nation, J B Priestley, Troy Kennedy Martin, Clive Exton, Julian Bond, Nigel Kneale and Robert Muller. Directors included Michael Ferguson, Peter ...
Sterling, Michelle Min
(? - ) Canadian academic and author, now in the US, whose first novel, Camp Zero (2023), is set in a Near Future America devastated by Climate Change; unbearable heat inland has led to the construction of Dystopian Keep-like oceanside gated communities or polders (see ...
Goldberg, Marshall
(1930-2005) US physician, teacher and author (sometimes as Marshall Goldberg, M D) of medical thrillers, some of which move into the Near Future, including Disposable People (1980) with Kenneth Kay, about a disease which suddenly ravages America, and Nerve (1981). He should not be confused with his father, the football player Marshall Goldberg (1917-2006). [JC]
Janifer, Laurence M
(1933-2002) US author in several genres and performing musician. Born Larry Mark Harris – a name used for his fiction until 1963 – he reverted to the old family name, which had been discarded by an immigration officer when Janifer's grandfather had gained entry to the America from Poland. Some of his non-sf books – mostly erotica – appeared under the pseudonyms Alfred Blake and Barbara Wilson; other pseudonyms (almost never for works in the fields of the fantastic) ...
Cassandra
Pseudonym of the unidentified UK author (? -? ) of The Channel Tunnel; or, England's Ruin (1876 chap), a Future War tale in which nobody believes that the eponymous passageway will invite a ruthless Invasion of the sceptr'd isle. [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 ...