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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 ...
SF Commentary
Australian Fanzine (1969-current) edited, published, and written by Bruce Gillespie, Melbourne, 97 issues to August 2018; some individual issues guest-edited by John Foyster (#10, #19, #27, #32, #34, #38) and Barry Gillam (#16). / US quarto (letter-size); duplicated #1 (January 1969) to #48/49/50 (October 1976); photo-offset #51 (March 1977) to #52 (June 1977); duplicated #53 (April 1978) to ...
Bunts, Frank Emory
(1861-1928) US surgeon and author; he is of some sf interest for The Soul of Henry Harrington and Other Stories (coll 1916), whose title story describes at some length the deterioration of a doctor, who begins to behave like a Mad Scientist through his increasingly demented attempts (the last of them successful) to isolate the physical soul in the brains of cadavers; Equipoisally, souls once liberated, possess the ...
Milán, Victor
(1954-2018) US author who has written under his own name and, it is understood, under further names; his acknowledged pseudonyms include Richard Austin, Robert Baron and S L Hunter; House Names include Alex Archer and James Axler. He began publishing sf with "Soldatenmangel" for Dragons of Darkness (anth 1981) edited by Orson Scott Card, and began ...
Armstrong, Kelley
(1968- ) Canadian author, whose many fantasy novels, usually published in series, and often with a romance timbre, are not listed below. She is of sf interest for the Rip Through Time sequence beginning with A Rip Through Time (2022), whose protagonist finds herself via Timeslip in various predicaments, housed in various bodies, in various eras. Some echoes of Marghanita ...
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 ...