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Chester, Deborah A
(1957- ) US author whose earlier work was written as by Jay D Blakeney or as by Sean Dalton, but who has published under her own name since 1996. Her Anthi sequence – The Children of Anthi (1985) and Requiem for Anthi (1990), written as by Jay D Blakeney – aroused some interest. It is a far-reaching and moderately complex vision of humanity's future Evolution, guided by the eponymous ...
Mohs, Mayo
(1934-1996) US editor of the Religion-themed sf anthology Other Worlds, Other Gods: Adventures in Religious Science Fiction (anth 1971; vt Other Worlds, Other Gods 1974), introduced by himself and featuring stories by Anthony Boucher, John Brunner, Arthur C Clarke, Philip José Farmer and ...
Kropp, Lloyd
(1937- ) US composer and author none of whose novels can be read primarily as sf, though each touches, at times with some Equipoisal drive, on sf: The Drift (1969) is a kind of Lost World tale set in the heart of the Sargasso Sea, where an enclosed culture has evolved in ignorance of the outside world; Who Is Mary Stark? (1974) examines the lives of ...
Starmania
Canadian album and musical (1978). Music by Michel Berger, lyrics by Luc Plamondon. Original cast included Daniel Balavoine, Claude Dubois, Diane Dufresne, Eric Esteve, France Gall, René Joly, Grégory Ken, Fabienne Thibault and Nanette Workman. / Francophone musical, originally released in France and Quebec as a double album, Starmania: ou la passion de Johnny Rockfort selon les évangiles télévisé ["Starmania: or the passion of Johnny ...
Tarzan, Deloris Lehman
Pseudonym of US art critic and author Deloris Tarzan Ament (1934- ), active from around 1970 in Seattle, Washington; she also writes as by Winifred Concannon. Her sf novel Red Tide (1975) with D D Chapman, which is initially set in a research station Under the Sea, describes the disastrous Ecological consequences of sudden anomalies in the growth of the eponymous ...
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 ...