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Kasulke, Calvin
(? - ) US author and playwright (recipient in the latter capacity of a Lambda literary fellowship) based in New York. His debut novel – or rather, novella with a great deal of white space – is Several People Are Typing: A Novel (2021), a genial comedy told entirely through chat sessions and personal direct messages in an eccentric New York PR consultancy's internal Slack ...
Walworth, Mansfield Tracy
(1830-1873) US author, almost certainly best known for the circumstances of his marriage and death: he married his stepsister Ellen Hardin Walworth (1832-1915) and abused her until she left him, after which their son Frank murdered him. It seems clearly the case that contortions of fustian, and almost random-seeming allusions to evocative subjects like Atlantis, have made his fiction difficult to parse meaningfully. But a tale like ...
Port Iris
US low-paying downloadable Online Magazine produced by Casey Seda, Pendleton, South Carolina; quarterly from March 2010 to June 2011; 5 issues. Though close to being a Fanzine because a sizable portion of each of the first three issues covered local sf and fantasy Conventions, these were redeemed by including Interviews with the various Guests of Honour, including ...
Murray, Will
Working name of US author William Patrick Murray (1953- ), who has shown an interest throughout his career in pulp Superheroes like Doc Savage, about which figure he wrote the nonfiction Secrets of Doc Savage (1981 chap); as Kenneth Robeson he began a new sequence of Doc Savage adventures comprising Python Isle (1991), White Eyes ...
Calder, Ritchie
(1906-1982) Scottish journalist, academic and author, active from 1922. He is of relevance to sf for his life-time advocacy of the science-driven creation of a peaceful future (see Futures Studies), from a left standpoint which, always moderate, never led him into any of the twentieth-century ideological bearpits into which the left (and the right) toppled so grimly and so often. His first book, The Birth of the Future (1934), is significant ...
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 ...