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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 ...
Edson, J T
(1928-2014) UK author, formerly a British Army dog-handler, whose large output consisted almost exclusively of the Westerns for which he was best known, nearly 140 of them. He also wrote the Bunduki sequence of Planetary Romances, beginning with Bunduki (1975), which is partially derived (with the permission of the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate, which was later ...
DiSilvestro, Roger L
(1949- ) US author whose first novel of genre interest was Ursula's Gift (1988), a humorous fantasy. His second, Living with the Reptiles (1990), spoofs the ethical tomfooleries of that form of the Time-Travel tale in which the protagonist changes history to save/destroy/play with the future. In this case the protagonists, after acquiring the necessary equipment in what remains of the Amazon jungle, pass into the ...
Okungbowa, Suyi Davies
Working name of Nigerian academic and author Osasuyi Okungbowa (1989- ), in Canada for some time, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Breaking the Habit" in Omenana for September 2015 as by Sui Davies. His first novel, David Mogo, Godhunter (2019), foretells his work to come in its complex use of Equipoisal counterpointing of narrative elements that might seem jostling, but which arguably well befit the ...
Shapiro, Stanley
(1925-1990) US screenwriter – he won an Academy Award for Pillow Talk (1959) – and author. In his sf novel, A Time to Remember (1986), filmed for Television as Running Against Time (1990), a man travels (see Time Travel) back through time to create an Alternate World whose Jonbar Point will be his prevention of ...
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 ...