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Crowley, John
(1942-2026) US teacher and author who also worked in documentary films and television for some time beginning in 1966. His sf novels have had a considerable impact on the field, and his fantasies established him as a figure whose work courteously but deeply stretched the boundaries of genre literature. / His first novel, The Deep (1975), is set on a flat discworld (see Flat Earth) resting on a pillar that extends beyond measurement into the ...
Moilin, Tony
Working name of French medical doctor, politician and author Jules Antoine Moilin (1832-1871), whose socialist Utopia, Paris en l'An 2000 (1869; trans Brian Stableford as Paris in the Year 2000 2013), envisions a pedestrian-dominated Paris in 2000 CE, a metropolis whose intricate arcades, "street-galleries", walkways and civil intersections create an intimacy already (in reality) lost through Baron ...
Garvin, Richard M
(1934-1980) US author whose main career was in advertising. His two sf novels, both in collaboration with Edmond G Addeo, are The FORTEC Conspiracy (1968) and The Talbott Agreement (1968). In the former, a crashlanded Spaceship with five sick Aliens aboard infects Earth with a deadly disease; the latter novel is borderline sf with espionage elements involving ...
Miller, Sam J
(1979- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Haunting Your House" in The Red Volume: An Anthology of Stories by the Awkward Robots (anth 2008 ebook) edited by The Awkward Robots, most of his early work being fantasy or horror, though his first novel, the Young Adult The Art of Starving (2017), Equipoisally offers hints as well of an sf explanation for the ...
Moon Zero Two
Film (1969). Hammer/Warner Bros. Directed by Roy Ward Baker. Written by Michael Carreras. Cast includes Adrienne Corri, Warren Mitchell, James Olson and Catherine von Schell. 100 minutes. Colour. / At the same time as the first actual Moon landing, Hammer Films were making this quasi-Western set on the Moon, envisaged as a rip-roaring Frontier area; the results are absurd. One of the hoariest of pulp Western plots is dressed up with a lot of colourful space hardware: a poor but ...
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 ...