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Carneiro, André
(1922-2014) The best known exponent of Brazilian sf since the 1960s and to date Brazil's most widely anthologized author, Carneiro began his career in sf with Diário da nave perdida ["A Lost Ship's Log"] (coll 1963), a collection that reveals Carneiro's stylistic control, sense of humour and his recurrent themes of sexuality, madness and the difficulty of communication. The title story, "Diário da nave perdida", tells of a couple stranded ...
Barr, Martin W
(1860-1938) US medical doctor and author; in the former capacity, as superintendent from 1893 to an unknown date of the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children at Elwyn, he was a strong advocate of the sterilization of "mental defectives" in his care whom he deemed incurable. Of sf interest is his only novel, The King of Thomond: A Story of Yesterday (1907), in the frame story of which the superintendent of a Pennsylvania insane asylum presents the first-person ...
Kummer, Frederic Arnold
(1873-1943) US playwright, screenwriter and author, who may have begun signing his name Frederic Arnold Kummer, Sr after his son Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr began publishing around 1935. Most of his work is nonfantastic, though he wrote at least two Posthumous Fantasies [for fuller entry on Kummer, and on Posthumous Fantasy, see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. ...
Taylor, Joelle
(1967- ) UK poet, playwright and author, active from the early 1990s, several of her early plays, like Naming (performed 1994 Oval House Theatre, London), gaining some reputation, without necessarily reaching publication, for their frontal confrontations with a range of connected issues (see Feminism, Sex). She began publishing poetry with Ska Tissue (coll 2011 chap); her fourth collection, ...
Austen, Catherine
(1965- ) Canadian author, almost exclusively for younger readers and the Young Adult audience, most of her work being nonfantastic; the time machine in Walking Backwards (2009) is a delusion on the part of the protagonist's grieving father. Of sf interest is All Good Children (2011), set in a Dystopian Near Future world ...
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 ...