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Moore, Chris

(1947-2025) Prolific UK artist, known to the public primarily for his hard-edged treatment of Hard SF subjects, although in fact he produced covers in different styles for all sorts of other genres as well, including illustrations of record sleeves for artists as diverse as Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo and Pentangle. What impressed most about Moore's sf art was not just the photographic realism but the sense of scale, achieved largely through a ...

Shapiro, Neil

(1949-    ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Now No One Waits" in If for December 1969, and who was moderately active for the next decade, releasing several stories and two novels: Planet Without a Name (1976), in which the exploitation of an apparently empty planet (see Colonization of Other Worlds) is affected by First Contact ...

Hale, David L

(?   -    ) US author – not to be confused with David L Hale (1949-    ), also an author – of two sf Satires, 2084: The Year of the Liberal (2001), which assumes the Post-Holocaust persecution of conservatives, and a primitive America now called Fairland and ruled by an Hispanic liberal lesbian female; and The Liberal Masters (2002), which ...

Rick & Morty

US animated tv comedy series (2013-current). Adult Swim/Cartoon Network. Created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon. Directors include Wesley Archer, Jacob Hair, Nathan Litz and Pete Michels. Writers include Eric Acosta, Dan Harmon, Tom Kauffman, Mike McMahan, Justin Roiland and Wade Randolph. Voice cast includes Harry Belden, Ian Cardoni, Sarah Chalke, Spencer Grammer, Chris Parnell and Justin Roiland. 71 23-minute episodes to date, plus 31 shorts. Colour. / ...

Donnelly, Ignatius

(1831-1901) US politician – a US Senator for Minnesota between 1863 and 1868 – and author, famous for his study Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882), which was responsible for a considerable resurgence of interest in the legend of Atlantis, and for The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-Called Shakespeare Plays (1888), in which he attempted to prove by cryptographic analysis that Francis ...

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 ...



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