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Fantasy Modeling
Letter-size saddle-stapled magazine. Six quarterly issues Fall 1980 to Winter 1981 from O'Quinn Publishing. Editor: unknown. / This short-lived companion to Cinemagic specialized in how-to articles on building sf, fantasy and Sword and Sorcery hobby kits and dioramas, together with some material on Games. Several artists contributed, by far the best-known being Boris ...
Rhode, John
Best known pseudonym of UK author Major Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1964), in active service during World War One who wrote about 145 detective novels (see Crime and Punishment) as by Miles Burton, John Rhode or Cecil Waye. Julian Symons called Rhode the "master of the humdrum" (i.e. puzzle-focused) mystery, not intended as a compliment; another mystery author and critic, H R F ...
Rowley, Christopher
(1948- ) US author whose career began with efficiently written Military SF novels, beginning with the War for Eternity/Fenrille sequence – The War for Eternity (1983), The Black Ship (1985), The Founder (1989) and To a Highland Nation (1993) – which concentrates on warfare within our solar system, though the inhabitants of at least one outlying ...
Sparkes, Ali
(1966- ) UK author of fiction, at first within what seemed to be an encompassing fantasy frame, addressed to younger readers crossing over into Young Adult expectations and focusing mostly on series. The first of these is the Shapeshifter sequence beginning with The Shapeshifter: Finding the Fox (2006), in which a cohort of Shapeshifter teenagers, the Children of Limitless Ability, ...
Jerrold, Douglas
(1893-1964) UK publisher and author, in active service during World War One; his Near-Future Storm Over Europe (1930) expresses – through the history of Cisalpania, a Ruritania caught in the liberalizing trammels of twentieth-century thought and politics, until monarchy is restored – an anti-semitic, conservative Roman Catholic view of history which his contemporaries ...
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 ...