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Boston, Bruce
(1943-2024) US poet (see Poetry) and prose author whose early work tended to the surreal, but who began – with stories like "Break" for New Worlds 7 (anth 1974) edited by Hilary Bailey and Charles Platt – to invoke fantasy and sf themes. His early poetry – much of it not genre at all, and almost all of it couched in a classically lucid voice – can most easily be ...
Black Sleep, The
Film (1956; vt Dr Cadman's Secret). Bel-Air Productions/United Artists. Produced by Aubrey Schenck and Howard W Koch. Directed by Reginald Le Borg (as LeBorg). Written by John C Higgins from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams. Cast includes Patricia Blair (credited as Patricia Blake), Claire Carleton, John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr, Peter Gordon, Tor Johnson, Bela Lugosi, Basil Rathbone, Herbert Rudley, Phyllis Stanley, Akim Tamiroff and Sally Yarnell. ...
Badham, John
(1939- ) US film-maker who showed a penchant for sf as far back as his early television work on Rod Serling's Night Gallery (1970-1972), for which he directed adaptations of stories by Basil Copper ("Camera Obscura") and Fritz Leiber ("The Girl with the Hungry Eyes"). For the portmanteau television film Three Faces of Love he directed Kurt ...
Huxley, Aldous
(1894-1963) UK man of letters and author, younger brother of Julian Huxley; his fame came early, in the 1920s, a decade which his work captured with precision, conveying an overwhelming sense of the psychic aftermath of World War One; most of his best fiction, such as Antic Hay (1923) and Point Counter Point (1928), was written then. From 1937 he lived in America, a residency which survived ...
Brazier, Paul
(1950-2016) UK editor and graphic designer, active in Fandom since the early 1980s with reviews in Vector, from 1990 also reviewing for Interzone. He edited and published the three issues of the Brighton-based UK SF Magazine Nexus (which see) from 1991 to 1993; in October 1994 this Semiprozine was merged into ...
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 ...