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Carver, Jeffrey A
(1949-2026) US author who began publishing sf with "... Of No Return" in Fiction Magazine for 1974. His first novel, Seas of Ernathe (1976), which serves as an introduction to the loose Star Rigger sequence of Space Operas, showed early signs of a love of plot and thematic complexity which would take him some time, and several novels, to control. The continuation, Star Rigger's Way (1978), for instance, combines quest ...
Smith, Cordelia Titcomb
(1902-1994) US librarian and editor of Great Science Fiction Stories (anth 1964), reprinting material ranging from Jules Verne and H G Wells to late-1950s Genre SF. This, to an effect of some bibliographic confusion, was reissued as The Best of Sci-Fi 3 (anth 1964) – as though it were part of the retitled and bizarrely renumbered UK sequence of Judith ...
All Good Comics
US Comic (1944; 1946). Fox Publications, Inc. Artists include Lou Ferstadt, Frank Godwin and Alvin Hollingsworth. 2 issues. Initially published in 1944, All Good Comics was one of several unnumbered one-shot 132 page comics published by Fox in this era – such as The Book of Comics, All Top Comics, All Your Comics (all 1944) and Book of All-Comics (1945) – ...
Twilight Q
Japanese Original Video Animation (OVA) (1987). 60 minutes. Colour. Originally conceived as an Anime anthology series (see Television Anthology Series) with the title evoking The Twilight Zones; only one volume was issued, containing two story segments: / 1. Time Knot: Reflection (original title ...
Kyne, Peter B
(1880-1957) US author, many of whose stories – at least 110 are credited – were made into films, including his first and most famous novel, The Three Godfathers (1913). Though it only hints at Near Future events, Pride of Palomar (1921) – filmed as The Pride of Palomar (1922) – is of interest for its portrayal of the Yellow Peril menace to ...
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 ...