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Jonathan, Norton Hughes
(1914-1990) US author, mostly of adventure tales for boys. The "ghost gang" in Dan Hyland, Police Reporter (1936) is rationalized; but the Lost Race City in The Lost Empire; Or, Larry Hannon Carries On (1934), part of the Eagle Scouts series, is duly discovered in Nepal and dealt with. [JC]
Cartmill, Cleve
(1908-1964) US author and journalist; co-inventor of the Blackmill system of high-speed typography. He began publishing work of genre interest with "Oscar" in Unknown for February 1941, and several short Fantasy novels, also in Unknown; one of these, "Hell Hath Fury" (August 1943 Unknown), was featured in the George Hay anthology of the same title ...
Slater, Jim
(1929-2015) UK financier and occasional author in whose Young Adult sf novel, The Boy Who Saved Earth (1979), a young Alien visitor uses his Telepathic powers and superior intellect to stave off an Invasion of Earth by bad aliens. [JC]
Wyatt, Stephen
(1948- ) UK author of two Ties to the Doctor Who universe: Paradise Towers (1988) and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (1989), both in the Doctor Who Target Novelizations subseries. [JC]
Stasheff, Christopher
(1944-2018) US author with a PhD in theatre, a subject he taught at university level; his writing career began with and has remained almost wholly dedicated to the variously interconnected Science Fantasy Warlock series, the first being the Warlock/Rod Gallowglass sequence, whose internal chronology begins with a book several titles into the sequence, Escape Velocity (1983), then continues untroubled with ...
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 ...