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Moore, Chris

(1947-2025) Prolific UK artist, known to the public primarily for his hard-edged treatment of Hard SF subjects, although in fact he produced covers in different styles for all sorts of other genres as well, including illustrations of record sleeves for artists as diverse as Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo and Pentangle. What impressed most about Moore's sf art was not just the photographic realism but the sense of scale, achieved largely through a ...

Hurley, Graham

(1946-    ) UK television scriptwriter and producer and author whose first novel, Rules of Engagement (1990; rev 1991), is based on his own 1989 Near Future Television drama, Rules of Engagement (1989 6 episodes), set in the sealed-off English city of Portsmouth just on the eve of World War Three. His later books, mainly the ...

Rosen, Lev A C

(circa 1980-    ) US author of All Men of Genius (2011), a Steampunk tale set in an Alternate History shaped so that the worlds imagined in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (performed 1599-1600) and The Importance of Being Earnest (first performed 14 February 1895; 1898) by Oscar Wilde ...

Willson, Basil Wynne

(1868-1946) UK teacher, Anglican bishop and translator, whose free and (for its time, and considering his Christian background) relatively uncensored translation of the Vera Historia of Lucian was published as Lucian's Wonderland (1899). [JC]

Lide, Alice

(1890-1955) US author of juvenile fiction, mostly set in Northern climes; her one title of Children's SF interest, Princess of Yucatan (1939), is a Lost Race tale set (unusually for her) in Mexico. [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 ...



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