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Hillman, S A
(? - ) US author of a Near Future medical Technothriller, Cradle Kill (1988), in which prenatal infants are profoundly affected by a chromosomal killer. Reflections of the Future: An Elective Course in Science Fiction and Fact (1975) is a competent primer for school use. [JC]
Tit-Bits Science Fiction Comics
UK Comic (1953). C Arthur Pearson, Ltd. Six issues. Most artwork and scripts by Ron Turner. 2-3 stories per issue. Cover in colour, but strips in black and white. A seventh issue was completed but not published in the UK, but was later released in France as Aventures de Demain #21 (1957). / Issue #1 opens with "The Dome of Survival": back "in the finite depths of time" (see Time Abyss), Pluto's ...
Bonham, Frank
(1914-1988) US author, most of whose adult novels were Westerns, and who wrote in various modes for younger readers, though some of his sf or fantasy was for Young Adult readers. The Missing Persons League (1976), set in a starving Dystopian USA, presents its young protagonist with the chance to find a better world. The Forever Formula (1979) is a strong sf tale in which a ...
Brookmyre, Christopher
(1968- ) UK author who remains best known for his Jack Parlabane sequence of noir thrillers, beginning with his first novel, Quite Ugly One Morning (1996), and all featuring a very Scottish investigative reporter profoundly at odds with the powers that be. His first tale to contain fantasy elements, Pandaemonium (2009) plays, not entirely successfully, an Equipoisal game with uneasily matched registers of ...
Astounding Science-Fiction
US magazine, pulp-size January 1930-December 1941, letter-size January 1942-April 1943, pulp size May 1943-October 1943, Digest-size November 1943-February 1963. It changed its title to Analog (which see) in 1960. Published by Publisher's Fiscal Corporation (a subsidiary of Clayton Magazines) January 1930-March 1933 and Street & Smith October 1933-January 1961, by which time the magazine had become ...
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 ...