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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 resting on a pillar that extends beyond measurement into the circumambient galactic Deep, in which very few stars ...
Callaghan, Jo
(circa1970- ) UK author of the Kat and Lock sequence of Near-Future crime thrillers beginning with In the Blink of an Eye (2023). A partnering of police officer Kat Frank with a Computer-housed AI AIDE (Artificially Intelligent Detecting Entity) who goes by the name Lock enables the solving of crimes not decipherable without intuitionally acute ...
Brown, Charles R
(? -? ) UK author of at least two sf tales; others may not have been identified. / In the anonymous A Man from the Moon (1870 chap), a mountain climber, resting at the summit of Mount Aconcagua in the Andes, encounters a man from the Moon who tells him that humanity is part but not necessarily the peak of Evolution, and who decries the feeble arguments of human ...
Smale, Alan
(? - ) UK-born astronomer and author, in US from 1988 and a US citizen from mid-2000; a NASA scientist and manager from 1988 and for several years Director of the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, a role from which he has since retired with Emeritus status. He began publishing work of genre interest with "The Breath of Princes" as Alan P Smale in ...
Lycoris Recoil
Japanese animated tv series (2022). A-1 Pictures. Created by Spider Lily and Asaura. Directed by Shingo Adachi. Written by Asaura. Voice cast includes Chika Anzai, Ami Koshimizu, Misaki Kuno, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Kosuke Sakaki, Yōji Ueda and Shion Wakayama. Thirteen 24-minute episodes. Colour. / The Spider Lily is a plant grown around rice fields to poison pests: its Latin name is Lycoris radiata. / Japan is free of the terrorism and major ...
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 ...