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Bower, B M
Pseudonym of US author Bertha Muzzy Bower Sinclair (1871-1940), who specialized in Westerns like Chip of the Flying U (1906); her one novel of sf interest, The Adam Chasers (1927), places an archaeologist – an "Adam chaser" – in Nevada, where hieroglyphics are found, along with the remains of eight-foot-tall men, all suggesting that Homo sapiens originated in the American West (see ...
Thor
Film (2011). Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment present a Marvel Studios production. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Written by Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz and Don Payne, story J Michael Straczynski and Mark Protosevich, based on the comic books created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, and Jack Kirby. Cast includes Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie ...
Everglade, Mark
(? - ) US journalist and author who has published reviews and commentary on Cyberpunk writers and issues; he began publishing fiction of genre interest with "Pay-to-Play" in Neo Cyberpunk: The Anthology (anth 2021) edited by Matthew A Goodwin, Anna Mosikat and Marlin Seigman. The Gliese 581g sequence beginning with Hemispheres (2020) is set on humanity's last inhabited planet, a ...
Delap, Richard
(1942-1987) US editor, reviewer and author who entered the sf world as a fan and soon began to publish book reviews, beginning with pieces in the Fanzine Granfalloon and contributing to "The Future in Books" column in Amazing Stories during 1959-1960. In Delap's F & SF Review he created a valuable review organ, whose folding was regretted. As a reviewer he was highly visible, being ...
Seymour, John
(1914-2004) UK farmer and author almost all of whose works, from the early 1950s until his death, are nonfiction discussing the disappearance of what he deemed to be a balanced world (see Ecology), and the prospects of achieving sustainability in the future (see Futures Studies). Of sf interest is Die Lerchen singen so schön ["The Larks They Sang Melodious"] (1982), portraying ...
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 ...