SF Encyclopedia Home Page
Wednesday 15 January 2025
Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Fourth Edition. Some sample entries appear below. Click here for the Introduction; here for the masthead; here for Acknowledgments; here for the FAQ; here for advice on citations. Find entries via the search box above (more details here) or browse the menu categories in the grey bar at the top of this page.
Site updated on 13 January 2025
Sponsor of the day: Joe Haldeman
Legge, J G
(1861-1940) Hong Kong-born author, in UK from an early age; his sf Satire, The Millennium (1927), mocks attempts to reform a Near Future Britain. [JC]
Smith, Andrew
(1962-? ) UK author of a Tie to the Doctor Who universe in the Doctor Who Target Novelizations subseries, Full Circle (1982), a novelization based on the Fourth Doctor. [JC]
Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine
1. US Digest-size magazine. 4 issues, irregular, September 1953 to July 1954, published by Star Publications; edited by L B Cole. This was an unremarkable magazine of moderate standard which published no memorable fiction; the actual editing was done by Laurence M Janifer at the Scott Meredith Literary Agency. Meredith had arranged a packaging deal with a number of publishers to produce crime, mystery and sf magazines ...
Luceno, James
(1947- ) US author who first came to attention through an imaginative sequence of Ties to the Robotech Television series of Mecha cartoon adventures, all with Brian C Daley (whom also see for details) under the joint pseudonym Jack McKinney, but who in these early years also wrote some untied solo sf adventures: ...
Saint, Paul
Pseudonym of Paul Beardsley (? - ), the UK author of a Tie contributed to the Doctor Who universe, Doctor Who: The Suns of Caresh (2003), an inventive tale involving games with high Technology. [JC]
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 ...