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Forsyth, Frederick
(1938-2025) UK author who gained fame with his first novel, The Day of the Jackal (1971), and whose books are generally political thrillers. The Shepherd (1975 chap), however, is a sentimental Timeslip or ghost fantasy in which a pilot on Christmas Eve 1957 is saved from crashing by a World War Two pilot in an antique bomber: pilot and plane had been shot down on the Christmas Eve of 1943. ...
Cassutt, Michael
(1954- ) US scriptwriter/producer for Television, and author who began publishing sf with "A Second Death" for Amazing in June 1974. His numerous television credits include serving as staff writer for The Twilight Zone in 1986 and story editor for Max Headroom in 1987; he has also written scripts of Farscape ...
Ingpen, Robert
(1936- ) Australian artist, illustrator and author, active from the late 1950s; most of his work is nonfiction or fantasy, the latter usually for children; he has also illustrated a very wide range of titles. He is of sf interest for the Australian Gnomes sequence beginning with Australian Gnomes (1979), which won a 1980 Ditmar Award for best novel, though its narrative elements are presented in the form of a ...
Brotherton, Mike
(1968- ) US astronomer and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Jack in the Box" in Talebones for Fall 1995. His first novel Star Dragon (2003) is a Hard SF Space Opera focused on the discovery that a dragon-shaped Alien being is composed of star matter; explorations in Xenobiology form the ...
Copley, Frank Barkley
(1875-1941) US author – best known for his adulatory Frederick W Taylor: Father of Scientific Management (1923 2vols) – in whose The Impeachment of President Israels (1913) a Near Future Jewish US president is impeached for refusing on ethical grounds to make war on Germany, but is vindicated. [JC]
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 ...