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Crowley, John
(1942-2026) US teacher and author who also worked in documentary films and television for some time beginning in 1966. His sf novels have had a considerable impact on the field, and his fantasies established him as a figure whose work courteously but deeply stretched the boundaries of genre literature. / His first novel, The Deep (1975), is set on a flat discworld resting on a pillar that extends beyond measurement into the circumambient galactic Deep, in which very few stars ...
Strutton, Bill
(1918-2003) Australian screenwriter and author; he was active in the former capacity from 1958, writing for various series including Doctor Who (1963-current), for which his only sf book of interest was also written, the Tie Doctor Who and the Zarbi (1972; vt Doctor Who – the Web Planet 1991). This tale was based on his own script, "The Web Planet" (13 February-20 ...
Sidorova, J M
(circa 1965- ) Russian-born research scientist and author, in the USA from 1990, who began publish work of genre interest with "The Witch, The Tinman, The Flies" in Asimov's for August 2010. Her sf series, the Age of Ice sequence comprising The Age of Ice (2013) and The Colors of Cold: A New Story from the Age of Ice (2013 ebook), examines in sf and "literary" terms the range of implications of ice: ...
Hughes, Rian
(1963- ) UK Comics and Graphic Novel illustrator, graphic designer, typographer and author, active from the early 1980s, his first graphic novel being The Science Service (graph 1987) with John Freeman; some of his early work was for sf comics like 2000 AD and Dan Dare – Pilot of the Future. / Hughes is perhaps ...
Proctor, Henry
(? -? ) UK author of Perpetual Youth: An Occult and Historical Romance (1913), whose protagonist, five hundred years before the early twentieth setting of the main action, gains Immortality after drinking blood; in the intervening centuries, now clairvoyant and able to make himself invisible (see Invisibility), he has become a Secret Master figure ...
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 ...