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Brummels, J V
(1951- ) US poet, rancher and author of some fiction, with Wayne State College since 1977, where he is Poet-in-Residence; his sf novel, Deus ex Machina (1989), is a complexly literate rendering in Cyberpunk-influenced terms of an urban USA facing the death of the Sun. There is a choice, for some, of escaping into space; but it is an option Brummels offers without any exuberance. [JC]
Münch, Paul Georg
(? -? ) German author of an anonymous Future War tale, Hindenburgs Einmarsch in London (1915; trans Louis G Redmond-Howard as Hindenburg's March into London: Being a Translation from the German Original 1916) as by Einem Deutschen Dichter ["A German Poet"], told from a patriotic German standpoint and climaxing in the fall of London through the ...
Allan, Mea
(1909-1982) Scottish journalist – she was best-known as war correspondent and columnist for the Daily Herald – and author in whose Near Future novel, Change of Heart (1943), World War Two has been won by the Allies, but peace is threatened by a resurgence of Nazism. [JC]
Wednesday
US tv series (2022-current; vt Wednesday Addams). MGM Television, Millar Gough Ink, Tim Burton Productions, Toluca Pictures. Created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the Addams Family created by Charles Addams. Directed by Tim Burton, Paco Cabezas, James Marshall, Gandja Monteiro and Angela Robinson. Writers include Kayla Alpert, April Blair, Alfred Gough, Matt Lambert and Miles Millar. Cast includes ...
Amazing Science Stories
UK Pulp magazine published in Manchester by Pembertons in 1951. Two unmemorable issues appeared, largely reprints from #2 and #3 of the Australian Thrills Incorporated, but also two stories reprinted from Super Science Stories, a UK edition of which had been published by Pembertons. [BS/PN] links / ...
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 ...