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Duffy, Maureen
(1933-2026) UK author, active from around 1950, several of whose books focused on London, including Capital (1975), a complex set of era-switching meditations – including a Neanderthal man's thoughts about the future – on the deep mythos of the city. The novel influenced Michael Moorcock's Mother London (1988) (as the author acknowledged clearly), and similar later works by Iain ...
George, David R, III
(? - ) US author of several Ties set in the Star Trek universe, beginning with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The 34th Rule (1999) with Armin Shimerman. The Star Trek: Crucible sequence, beginning with Star Trek Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows (2006), focuses on traumatic crises faced in turn by officers of the original ...
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]
Allan, Angus P
(1936-2007) UK comic strip writer, magazine editor and author of two novel Ties; also credited as Angus Allan. Thunderbirds Are Go (1966) novelizes the Thunderbirds film Thunderbirds Are Go (1966); Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future (1977) is a mediocre tie to the famous Eagle space-adventure Comic strip ...
James, Roby
Pseudonym of US scriptwriter, spiritual adviser and author Rhoda Blecker (? - ); the Starfire sequence, comprising Commencement (1996) and Commitment (1997), features a young woman with Psi Powers who, after being trained to use them for evil by an interstellar government, learns to use them for good, which benefits all. Beyond the Hedge (2006) is fantasy. [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 ...