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Comp, T Allan
(1942- ) US historian and anthologist, in the latter capacity editor of the useful compilation The Man in the Moone and Other Lunar Fantasies (anth 1971; vt The Man in the Moone: An Anthology of Antique Science Fiction and Fantasy 1971) with Faith K Pizor [who see for further details]. Comp's own activities and frequent nonfiction publications have focused on Ecological issues, with ...
Lang, Fritz
(1890-1976) Austrian film-maker who, after trouble with the Nazis, left Germany for France in 1933 and emigrated to the USA in 1934. He was originally trained as an architect but preferred the graphic arts; during the years before World War One he supported himself as a cartoonist and caricaturist. He turned to writing after being wounded during the conflict, producing several popular thrillers and fantasy romances. After 1918 he ...
Lowenstein, Sallie
(1949- ) US author of tales for younger children and Young Adult novels, often with fantastic settings. Of sf interest are Evan's Voice (1998), set in a future Dystopia where the protagonist cares for his young brother Evan whose has been rendered speechless by a plague – eventually hope dawns; Focus (2001), which takes place on a future Earth where ...
Mayr, Suzette
(1967- ) Canadian academic and author whose third novel, Venous Hum (2004), is a gonzo Near Future Satire on Identity issues, Sex, Gender, suburbia and the conventions governing the kind of horror novel now described as Urban Fantasy (not the same category as the principal definition of the term in The ...
Galloway, James M
(? -? ) US author of John Harvey: A Tale of the Twentieth Century (1897; vt Lock and Key 1899 as James M Galloway) as by Anon Moore, a socialist Utopia in the middle of the twentieth century made possible through Harvey's discovery of two "miracle metals", and upon the Weapons whose Invention this enables; later, during a brief 1931 ...
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 ...