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Clarke, Frances H
(? -? ) US author of a Utopia, The Co-opolitan: A Story of the Co-operative Commonwealth of Idaho (1898) as by Zebina Forbush, in which a communitarian settlement, where women are effectively equal with men, is established by 1917. There is apparently no connection between her and Francis H Clarke. [JC]
King, John Robert
(1948- ) UK author whose Bruno Lipshitz and the Disciples of Dogma (1976) rather uneasily juggles a number of ingredients in a complex plot: an Alien invasion, a strange Religion, interpersonal conflicts and dollops of adventure. [JC]
Penney, Lloyd
(1959- ) Canadian fan, editor and convention-runner, active in Fandom since the late 1970s; he co-edited the Fanzine Torus (8 issues 1986-1990) and has received multiple FAAn Awards for his many letters published in fanzines. Since November 2022 he has been the editor of the current incarnation of Amazing Stories, and in this ...
Chase, Adam
Pseudonym used usually by Milton Lesser alone, but once in collaboration with Paul W Fairman on The Golden Ape (1959), based on "Quest of the Golden Ape" (January-March 1957 Amazing) as by Adam Chase and Ivar Jorgensen, the latter being a House Name associated in that spelling with Fairman. [JC] links / ...
Ferguson, Brad
Working name of US radio executive and author Bradley Michael Ferguson (1953- ), who remains known mainly for four Star Trek Ties: Crisis on Centaurus (1986), A Flag Full of Stars (1991), Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Last Stand (1995) and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 13: The Haunted Starship (1997) with Kathi Ferguson (his wife, who is a scientist). He has also written one ...
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 ...