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Green, Evie
Pseudonym of UK author Emily Barr (1971- ) who under her own name has written several travel books, twelve nonfantastic novels, and at least three nonfantastic young adult tales. We Hear Voices (2020) as by Green, set in the Near Future after a coronavirus-like Pandemic (see also Disaster) has savaged the planet, focuses on a young boy under the influence of an ...
DiLouie, Craig
(1967- ) US author who has concentrated for most of his career on horror and fantasy, beginning with Paranoia (2001), a supernatural thriller involving paranormal powers, the Illuminati, and the predicted assassination of an American president. Interspersed with material of this not unusual sort and of not remarkable calibre are tales of sf interest, the first of these being The Thin White Line: A History of the 2012 Avian Flu Pandemic in Canada ...
Pythagorolunister
Pseudonym of the author (? - ), possibly John Kirkby, of a Proto SF text involving Space Flight, Journey to the World in the Moon: A Dream, Containing an Historical Relation, (as received from a Lunar Philosopher) from above a Hundred Years last past, to the present Time, of the most Material Occurrences, as to the Religion, Politics ...
Brooks, Sarah
(? - ) UK academic, editor and author, a co-editor of Samovar, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Moon Bears" in Shimmer for September 2013. The titular Travel Guide that conducts her first novel, The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wasteland (2024), though deeply unreliable, does provide the sole vade mecum available for train passengers (see ...
Pollock, Frank Lillie
(1876-1956) US-born author, in Canada from childhood; active in magazines like The Black Cat from 1898 till around 1930, his most famous individual story being Finis (June 1906 Argosy; 2022 ebook), in which a deadly Ray, or perhaps more accurately radiance – generated by a giant Star at the centre of the universe – causes the ...
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 ...