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Dagnol, Jules N
Pseudonym of US author Franklin Coasten Langdon (1913-1980), who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Man Who Could Smell Land" in Mast Magazine for October 1947. His sf novel for Robert Hale Limited, The Sandoval Transmissions (1980), is a routine adventure. [SH/JC] see also: Robert Hale Limited. /
Tweed, Thomas F
(1890-1940) UK soldier, publisher and author, in active service during World War One, political advisor to David Lloyd George (1863-1945) from 1927 until his death. This relationship, and his affair with Lloyd George's then mistress (and eventual wife) Frances Stevenson (1888-1972) both figure, transposed to America, in his first Scientific Romance, the Near-Future ...
Janáček, Leoš
(1854-1928) Czech composer. His four-act opera Výlet pana Broučka do XV. stolet a do Měsíce ["The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century "] (1920) is as jaunty and unrealistic a piece of sf as its title suggests. Janáček's opera Věc Makropulos (1926, translated into English variously as "The Makropulos Affair" and "The Makropulos Case") adapts Karel Čapek's novel ...
Landis, Arthur H
(1917-1986) US author and editor. While editing for Dealer's Voice, a motorcycle magazine, Landis convinced his publisher to begin a new fantasy magazine, Coven 13, which he edited for four issues September 1969-March 1970 before the title passed to William L Crawford. He published there a four-part serial as by James R Keaveny, which became A World Called Camelot (September 1969-March 1970 ...
Jackson, G Gibbard
(1877-1935) UK author, usually of tales for boys on aeronautical subjects, and of nonfiction about air travel and other related topics; of sf interest is Arctic Air Terror (1937), a Lost Race tale set in the Yukon Territory. Within a caldera heated by volcanic action, a technologically advanced but priest-ridden civilization of "white Indians", originally from Ancient Egypt, uses its helicopter-like airships ...
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 ...