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Womack, Marian
(1975- ) Spanish translator, editor and author, married to James Womack, now mostly resident in the UK. She writes Gothic, weird and sf tales in both Spanish and English and teaches in the Oxford University writing programme. She has contributed to important Anthologies, such as The Best of Spanish Steampunk (anth 2015), which she ...
Galaxy Science Fiction Novels
A companion series to Galaxy Science Fiction. The first 31 issues of these numbered books, which resembled magazines, were published irregularly, 1950-1957, in Digest format, and a further four, 1957-1959, were issued in standard paperback format. #1-#7 (1950-1951) were published by World Editions, #9-#35 (1952-1959) by Galaxy Publishing Corp. The series was then taken over by Beacon Books, a publisher specializing in mild pornography, ...
Darvill-Evans, Peter
(1954- ) UK author and editor, involved in the Games world from about 1976, initiating his writing career with three Fighting Fantasy Ties beginning with Fighting Fantasy Gamebook 25: Beneath Nightmare Castle (1987). He is best-known for his creating for Virgin Books and editing the New Adventures sub-sequence of the overall ...
Selected Science Fiction
Australian Digest-size magazine. Five slim (32pp saddle-stapled) monthly issues, May to September 1955, published by The Malian Press, Sydney; edited anonymously by the publisher James Mitchell. Selected Science Fiction, a companion to American Science Fiction Magazine, reprinted US material of quite good quality, including work by Philip K ...
Tronchin-James, Nevil
(1916-1990) UK author of Ministry of Procreation (1968), a Satire for Robert Hale Limited whose target is the bureaucratization of Sex in Near-Future Britain. [JC]
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 ...