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Watson, Ian
(1943-2026) UK teacher and author who lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish sf with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for New Worlds in 1969; he then taught Future Studies for six years at Birmingham Polytechnic, taking there one of the first academic courses in sf in the UK; he became a full-time writer in 1976, publishing around 200 short stories since 1969 at a gradually increasing tempo and with visibly ...
Galopin, Arnould
(1863-1934) French author whose nonfantastic novels were critically respected; several were set in World War One, and reflected his war service in the Merchant Marine. Most of his career, however, was focused on popular thrillers, often containing a fantastic element, as in the Doctor Omega sequence beginning with Le Docteur Omega [for subtitle see Checklist below] (1906; adapted Jean-Marc Lofficier ...
Allbeury, Ted
Working name of UK crime/spy-fiction author Theodore Edward le Bouthillier Allbeury (1917-2005), much of whose fiction takes its authentic tone from the fact that he was in the British secret service during World War Two; he also wrote as Richard Butler and as Patrick Kelly. Some of his spy thrillers edge into Near Future venues, though his only sf novel proper is All Our Tomorrows (1982), which depicts a UK occupied by Russia after it has declined ...
Vasset, Philippe
(1972- ) French journalist, editor and author whose Machines sequence beginning with Exemplaire de Démonstration: roman (2002; trans Jane Metter as ScriptGenerator: Machines 1 2004) is a Satire on the contemporary Media Landscape set into a very Near Future, where the enormously sophisticated ...
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Film (1958). Paramount. Directed by Gene Fowler Jr. Written by Louis Vittes, from a story by Fowler and Vittes. Cast includes Ken Lynch, Gloria Talbot and Tom Tryon. 78 minutes. Black and white. / Another manifestation of the rampant Paranoia of the 1950s, I Married a Monster from Outer Space might be called an sf version of I Married a Communist. In this enjoyably tasteless Monster Movie, a young woman's ...
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 ...