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Sallis, James
(1944-2026) US musician, poet and author, briefly active in New Worlds during its Michael Moorcock-directed New-Wave phase; he began to publish work of genre interest in this context with "Kazoo" (August 1967 New Worlds) and co-edited the magazine 1968-1969. His clearly acknowledged models in the French avant garde and the gnomic brevity of much of his work ...
Samuel, Horace B
(1883-1950) UK lawyer, translator and author, in active service during World War One, whose Modernities (coll 1913) contains vivid studies of contemporary literary figures; in his Scientific Romance The Quisto-Box (1925), the consequences of the Invention of the "Telepathoscope", a mind-reading Machine, are ...
Sambury, Liselle
(? - ) Canadian author whose first novel, the Young Adult Blood Like Magic (2021), Equipoisally plunges its teenage protagonist, who lives and works in a high-tech Near Future Toronto, into a world of Magic complexly involving a curse upon her family. In the sequel, Blood Like Fate ...
SFTV
Letter-size saddle-stapled Television magazine printed on a mix of newsprint and middle-grade paper. HSJ Publications. Editor: Robert Strauss. Possibly sixteen issues on a quarterly schedule, 1984 to 1989. / One of the very few publications devoted to Fantasy and science fiction television programmes, this title is now largely forgotten but served an important purpose in the years before the Internet. Television episode guides were ...
Glendon, George
(? -? ) UK author known mainly for his sf Near Future novel, The Emperor of the Air (1910), in which the Invention of a superscientific Airship, lifted by a vacuum-creating engine, leads to the destruction of the air fleets of the world, the bombing of New York, and the brief imposition of a ...
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 ...