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Carriger, Gail
Pseudonym of US archaeologist and author Tofa Borregaard (1976- ), who published some early short fiction under her real name, beginning with "A Kind of Malice" in Space and Time for 1999. As Carriger, she has focused almost exclusively on the Parasol Protectorate sequence – the central volumes of which are Soulless (2009), Changeless (2010), Blameless (2010), Heartless ...
Peters, S M
(? - ) Canadian author, possibly pseudonymous, who began publishing work of genre interest with "Ticker Hounds" in On Spec for Winter 2005. Whitechapel Gods (2008) is a Steampunk tale set in an Alternate History version of Whitechapel, in east London, years after a failed revolt against the gods of the machine. Two of ...
Penney, Lloyd
(1959- ) Canadian fan, editor and convention-runner, active in Fandom since the late 1970s; he co-edited the Fanzine Torus (8 issues 1986-1990) and has received multiple FAAn Awards for his many letters published in fanzines. Since November 2022 he has been the editor of the current incarnation of Amazing Stories, and in this ...
Death Line
Film (1972; vt Raw Meat US). K-L Productions. Directed by Gary Sherman. Written by Ceri Jones, from a story by Sherman. Cast includes Hugh Armstrong, Sharon Gurney, David Ladd, Donald Pleasence and Norman Rossington. 87 minutes. Colour. / In the late nineteenth century a group of construction workers building an extension to London's Underground railway system are buried in a cave-in. In the present, late-night travellers at Russell Square tube ...
Kemp, Randall H
(1852-1914) US field mineralogist from 1890 or earlier on expeditions in Pacific Rim states of America, and author of A Half-Breed Dance and Other Far Western Stories: Mining Camp, Indian and Hudson's Bay Tales Based on the Experiences of the Author (coll 1909), which contains two tales of interest: "Underneath Spokane" features a virtual Hollow Earth of underground caverns; and in the Lost World described in "The ...
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 ...