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Long, Jeff
(1951- ) US author, initially of mountaineering novels, who made his genre debut with The Descent (1999). While including some mountaineering, this Horror thriller posits that the myth of Hell derives from a worldwide realm of Underground caverns inhabited by a Lost Race of "hadals". The hostile environment has caused many of these human-related cannibals to ...
Reid, Rob
(1966- ) US venture capitalist, journalist and author whose nonfiction Architects of the Web (1997) is a strong early study of the Internet (see also Media Landscape). His sf novel, Year Zero (2012) is a comic Satire on the Near Future Music industry. Two Aliens, who ...
Peyton, Audrey
(? - ) UK author of Ashes (1981), a dark sf tale for Robert Hale Limited which is set in an obscurely described world devastated by Climate Change. [JC]
Biggers, W Watts
(1927-2013) US composer, scriptwriter who wrote Underdog (1964-1973), an animated television series featuring the eponymous rhyming dog Superhero (recited by Wally Cox), and author whose The Man Inside (1968) describes – perhaps not coincidentally – the experiences of a man embedded within a Robot, who must communicate through this disguise. [JC]
Appel, Allen
(1945- ) US photographer and author whose Alex Balfour Time-Travel sequence – whose first four titles are Time after Time (1985), Twice Upon a Time (1988), Till the End of Time (1990) and In Time of War (2003) – hovers, as do so many tales of this sort, between sf and fantasy. The protagonist's visits (first to the Russian Revolution; then to the time of Mark ...
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 ...