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Suzuki Kōji
(1957-2026) Japanese author and essayist, largely known in English through the Cinema adaptations of several of his books, the international success of which obscured his wide-ranging domestic output. His horror and Equipoisal fiction proceeded in tandem with a wide array (not listed here) of books on young fatherhood and occasional works on motorcycle travel. He was also the translator of Simon Brett's ...
Morris, Chris
Working name of US rock musician and author Christopher Crosby Morris (1946- ), married to Janet E Morris, who played bass in his band and with whom he has written several sf novels (see her entry for discussion of these titles). He has also written two Military SF Technothrillers, Cobra (1991) and Hawkeye (1991) with Jane ...
Peacock, Thomas Love
(1785-1866) UK businessman, poet and author, with the East India Company 1819-1856, active initially as a poet from before 1805; his first full-length fiction, Headlong Hall (dated 1816 but 1815), is a discussion novel or symposium, set in the Welsh country estate of Squire Harry Headlong ab-Rhaiader, the Gothic description of which is fantastically exaggerated; the tale features a series of monomaniacal talking heads, whose individual maggots govern their names and natures and ...
Fantastic Comics
US Comic (1939-1941). 23 issues. Fox Publications, Inc. Artists include Alex Blum, Bill Bossert, Grieg Chapian, Fletcher Hanks and Don Rico. Script writers include Toni Blum, Will Eisner, Fletcher Hanks and Fred Schwab. 7-9 strips and a 2-page text story per issue. / Always the cover star, whose stories open each issue and are about twice the length of others', is Samson: coming from "out of the mists of history", he ...
Science-Fiction Plus
US letter-size magazine, perfect bound. Seven issues, March to December 1953, monthly for four months, then bimonthly, published from New York by Hugo Gernsback's Gernsback Publications Inc, with Sam Moskowitz as managing editor. / This was Gernsback's last venture in the sf field, and attempted to recover something of the flavour of his early pulps, including some Frank R Paul covers, but ...
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 ...