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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Craigie, David
Pseudonym for her written work of theatre costume designer, illustrator and author Dorothy Glover (1901-1971), partner of Graham Greene between 1939 and 1948. As Dorothy Craigie, she wrote numerous stories for younger children, from Summersalts Circus (1947) to Nicky and Nigger Join the Circus (1960); and illustrated children's books, including the four in the genre by Greene, with whom she wrote ...
Space Camp
Film (1986). ABC. Directed by Harry Winer. Written by W W Wicket, Casey T Mitchell, from a story by Patrick Bailey, Larry B Williams. Cast includes Kate Capshaw, Tate Donovan, Leaf Phoenix, Kelly Preston, Larry B Scott, Tom Skerritt and Lea Thompson. 108 minutes. Colour. / At a NASA-sponsored summer space camp, a Space Flight simulation in a space shuttle becomes the real thing after the intervention of a well-meaning ...
Arcona, Lisa
(? - ) US graphic designer and author who is of sf interest for The Outpost War sequence beginning with From Grey (2024), a Young Adult Planetary Romance set on a long-colonized world (see Colonization of Other Worlds); the protagonist, a privileged descendant of the settlers on Attis, finds interaction and conflict ...
Three-Lobed Burning Eye
US Online Magazine of horror, sf, and Fantasy, published by editor Andrew S Fuller. Initially bimonthly, later triannual, April 1999 to current. / Despite taking its name from H P Lovecraft's, "The Haunter of the Dark" (December 1936 Weird Tales), Three-Lobed Burning Eye does not specialize in publishing weird fiction or 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 ...