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Dietz, William C
(1945-2026) US author who began to publish sf with War World (1986; vt Galactic Bounty 1997), the first volume of his Sam McCade sequence of sf adventures about an interstellar bounty hunter, which continued with Imperial Bounty (1988) and two further titles. The galactic venue of the series exhibits some interesting kinks, and McCade himself gradually gains individuality. Although the angle of approach differs – the protagonist this time ...
Metaphorosis
US monthly Online Magazine, first issue January 2016. Edited by B Morris Allen. Stories are published weekly online, then collected in monthly ebooks and (since July 2018) paperbacks; there are also annual collections reprinting the relevant year's tales. Each issue comprises 4-5 science fiction or fantasy stories, except for December 2017, which had 6: they are usually short stories, occasionally novelettes, rarely novellas. / Stories are, at worse, ...
Time Express
US tv series (1979). Warner Brothers Television for NBC-TV. Created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. Produced by Leonard B Kaufman. Directors included Michael Caffey, Alan J Levi. Writers included Pat Fielder, Stephen Kandel. Cast includes Coral Browne, Woodrow Parfrey, William Phipps, Vincent Price and James Reynolds. Four 50-minute episodes. Colour. / The Time Express was a very special railway train apparently owned by Jason and Margaret Winters (Price and Browne), who served as ...
Mattingly, David B
(1956- ) US sf artist who has occasionally worked also under the names David Mattingly, D B Mattingly and Dave Mattingly. He received his formal art training at the Colorado Institute of Art and Pasadena's Art Center College of Design, then began working full time at Walt Disney Studios (see The Walt Disney Company), eventually becoming the head of the matte department there; among the Disney movies of sf interest on which he ...
Kingston, Agnes Kinloch
(1824-1913) UK linguist and translator, married from 1853 until his death to W H G Kingston, who published her translations of Jules Verne and Johann Wyss under his own name without acknowledgement; for some later work she signed herself Agnes D Kingston. These translations, which have been properly faulted for expurgations and inaccuracies, were typical of Victorian workmanship in this ...
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 ...