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Sarrantonio, Al

(1952-2025) US editor and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Ahead of the Joneses" in Asimov's for March 1979. Much of his work was horror, sometimes tinged with sf (see Horror in SF), including his first novel, The Worms (1985), a Gothic tale set in Massachusetts with hints of H P Lovecraft; and the Equipoisal Moonbane ...

Muirden, James

(1942-    ) UK author, most of whose works are nonfiction popularizing Astronomy; he also published the two-volume Eric Kendall series of Young Adult sf tales comprising Space Intruder (1965) and The Moon-Winners (1965). Young Eric, after halting a rogue planet from striking Earth in the first volume, again must fight the obduracy of the British defense establishment in the ...

Wood, J A

(?   -    ) UK author of We Alien Seed (1978), a Genre SF contribution to the Robert Hale Limited [JC]

Carnosaur

Film (1993). New Horizons Picture. Directed by Darren Moloney and Adam Simon. Produced by Roger Corman and Mike Elliott. Written by Adam Simon, very heavily revising a screenplay adaptation by John Brosnan of his novel Carnosaur (1984) as by Harry Adam Knight. Cast includes Diane Ladd, Harrison Page, Jennifer Runyon and Raphael Sbarge. 83 minutes. Colour / This exercise in exploitative ...

New Zealander

If Louis-Sébastien Mercier's Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred (1771) can be set to one side, because its protagonist travels forward in time (see Time Travel) in order to view the ruins of Versailles, the first published narrative set in the future in which a tourist of that future period investigates the ruins of a City like ...

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 ...



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