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Coover, Robert
(1932-2024) US author who established a considerable reputation with his novels, in which Fabulation and political scatology mix fruitfully. His work could be seen to represent a Postmodernist intensification of the same milieu excoriated by Richard Condon; at times both authors seem to be describing a nightmare dream of orgy-choked life in the Late Roman Empire (see ...
Sayles, John
(1950- ) US author and film-maker who made his reputation as a writer with the novels Pride of the Bimbos (1975) and Union Dues (1977) and his collection The Anarchist's Convention (coll 1979). He began writing scripts for exploitation movies in the late 1970s, and enjoyed a burst of creativity in association with Roger Corman, Joe Dante, Lewis Teague and Steven ...
Rhysling Award
A regular Award for sf and fantasy Poetry, presented annually since 1978 by the Science Fiction Poetry Association (from 2017 the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association). It is named for the blind balladeer of Robert A Heinlein's "The Green Hills of Earth" (8 February 1947 ...
Harrison, William
(1933-2013) US academic, poet, screenwriter and author whose Roller Ball Murder (coll 1974; vt Rollerball: 13 Selected Stories 1975) contains the story "Roller Ball Murder" (September 1973 Esquire), which formed the basis for his screenplay for Rollerball (1975), in which the eponymous sport (see Games and Sports) serves as a safety valve to keep the world of 2018 otherwise at peace. ...
Friel, Arthur O
(1885-1959) US author and explorer, most of whose work appeared in Pulp magazines, including the McKay, Knowlton and Ryan sequence of Lost Race tales set in South America and featuring the exploits of Americans, who eventually establish a kingdom somewhere close to Peru, their central base being in ancient ruins left by a mysterious white race. Those published as books – The Pathless Trail (10 October-10 November 1921 ...
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 ...