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Conway, Gerard F
(1952-2026) US author informally known as Gerry Conway who began his career in Comics, writing some non-fantastic scripts for Marvel Comics, and editing the short-lived 1973 weird fiction magazine The Haunt of Horror and writing for the 1973-1975 anthology Comic Worlds Unknown. He also worked extensively for ...
Klerykal Fiction
Polish term for a subgenre of Polish Fantastika dealing with Religion. It is often associated with works of fiction (mostly sf) critical of religion; however, there are dissenting views. The term entered Polish sf critical discourse by the mid-1990s, and has been attributed to Tomasz Kołodziejczak, although the general phenomenon of a new wave of Polish works ...
Piranha
Film (1978). New World. Executive producers Roger Corman, Jeff Schechtman. Directed by Joe Dante. Written by John Sayles, based on a story by Sayles and Richard Robinson. Cast includes Paul Bartel, Bradford Dillman, Kevin McCarthy, Heather Menzies, Dick Miller, Barbara Steele and Keenan Wynn. 94 minutes. Colour. / The army has been creating cold-water-tolerant man-eating piranhas for use ...
Storm, L Elizabeth
(? - ) US author of two Ties to the Television series Quantum Leap, Quantum Leap #8: Pulitzer (1995) and Quantum Leap #12: Angels Unawares (1997); though linked to the series governing Time Travel/Identity Transfer premise, the two novels are otherwise independent. [JC]
Golden Heroes
Role Playing Game (1984). Games Workshop (GW). Designed by Simon Burley, Peter Haines. / Golden Heroes, like Villains and Vigilantes (1979) and Champions (1981), is an early Role Playing Game with a Superhero theme. Its mechanics are generally well designed and closely match the ...
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 ...