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Miles, Terry
(1966- ) Canadian filmmaker, broadcaster and author who is of sf interest for the Rabbits series of Near Future novels beginning with Rabbits (2021), set in a complex Cyberspace-like Virtual Reality Zone dominated by the eponymous highly immersive Videogame, the structure ...
Wilson, Robert Hendrie
(1944- ) Scottish journalist, travel writer and author of four Genre SF tales for Robert Hale Limited, beginning with The Gods Alone (1975). [JC]
Adams, Frederick Upham
(1859-1921) US inventor, who specialized in improvements to heavy-duty engines for harvesting and locomotion, and author whose Near Future Utopia, President John Smith: The Story of a Peaceful Revolution (Written in 1920) (1897), elaborates upon the right of the electorate to choose the American Cabinet, and to earn a living wage without qualification. ...
Cayea, John
(? - ) US illustrator, seemingly active only from around 1970 to around 1981, his first cover being for Eando Binder's The Night of the Saucers (1971) from Belmont Books. Almost all of his following work was for Doubleday and Company, beginning with Jacqueline Lichtenberg's House of Zeor (1974). A Cayea cover soon became easy to recognize, often ...
Shanahan, Warren
(1926-1997) US author who began to publish stories in detective and adventure magazines in late 1956; of some sf interest is the Cold War novelette "Mr. President, Red China Has Orbited a Cobalt Bomb" in Stag for October 1964 as by W J Saber, a Pseudonym he was to use again (once as Warren J Saber). Shanahan contributed a single novel to the Avon Books series of Ties about the adventures of Lee ...
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 ...